Indeed, several years later, in a lesser known battle at a place called Patay, French knights with better leadership - St. That we often believe it did is nothing more than mythology, or perhaps good information operations by an Englishman of the name William Shakespeare, who mastered the art of the narrative. They also did not end the utility, or even the dominance, of the knight on the battlefield. The English were never able to parlay their tactical victory into a war-winning event. Army, as it works through its own efforts to modernize and adapt to the changing character of warfare evident in today’s Operational Environment (OE).Īs I concluded my initial thoughts on Agincourt, I argued that the conventional myth of the battle, which holds that the English won a resounding victory and ended the dominance of the armored mounted knight, was false, namely because the French won the war. 1 I argued that these same lessons, which the French learned the hard way, were relevant to the contemporary U.S. Briefly, these lessons were: 1) the need to master the transitions between competition and conflict 2) the need for better leadership and 3) the need to effectively modernize their force. My article was intended to offer a stark reminder that although the French were indeed defeated in detail, they still won the war, namely because they learned three important lessons and were able to adopt rapid reforms to implement them. military was fast becoming the expensive, exquisite force - akin to the French knights at Agincourt - that is vulnerable to modern equivalents of the English longbow, such as drones or cyber-attacks. In July 2019, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Myth of Agincourt and Lessons on Army Modernization.” This piece challenged the mythology surrounding this seminal battle, as well as a stream of analysis, which held that the U.S.
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Army “ building the right force, with the right people to prevail over adversaries who have thought long and hard about how to defeat us?” (Please review this post via a non-DoD network in order to access all of the embedded links - Thank you!)] The use of this expression was so useful and popular that it has survived the passing of time, the phrase is one of our 'Latin legacies'.), today’s post pushes this line of query further, using a number of historical military reforms and last year’s conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh to explore the fundamental question: Is the U.S. The Latin language spread throughout the western world and was taught in schools and spoken by the greatest scholars. The meaning of the expression is "Word for word". However, it is often subject to being spelled incorrectly, so be careful not to spell it 'verbatum'.The roots of this famous Latin phrase lay with the language of the ancient Romans.
The popular Latin phrase or expression "Verbatim" is so familiar that it has become part of our own language. "Once more unto the breach, dear friends." "To be, or not to be: that is the question." The speeches from the works of William Shakespeare that are most often leant verbatim are: Examples of the use of the famous Latin phrase "Verbatim" can be found in schools and in the modern workplace.
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