the first city founded was called alexandria.... followed by alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria alexandria alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria, alexandria and iskenderun (arabic for alexandria) and of course kandahar (persian for alexandria) :D

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

7 жыл бұрын

well, you can clearly see that Alexander skip on creative writing class.

@crwydryny

7 жыл бұрын

either that or he may have had a little tiny bit of an ego problem lol

@Albukhshi

7 жыл бұрын

Arabic has two words for Alexanderia, not one: al-iskandariyya: the one in Egypt al-iskdandarun: the one in Turkey; this was then rendered Iskendarun in Turkish.

@randomguy-tg7ok

7 жыл бұрын

I believe he also founded a city called something like, erm... Buchephalia...?

@kahaula32

7 жыл бұрын

Named for his horse; at the site where this greatest of all horses died in battle.

A couple of comments on the subject: 1.Prominent among Alexander's supplies from Greece were tons and tons of wine. 2. Among the service providers that came from Greece were 500 teachers to help the many children born, to his army's captive women, to learn the language of their daddies.

"Amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics." - Gen. Robert H. Barrow, USMC Awesome video. Thank you.

@knutdergroe9757

5 жыл бұрын

The United States won all its wars though logistics (exception Vietnam won all the battles, lost the war). Logistics and strategic just like Alexander. Phillip his father was a tactical genesis, like many German Generals of WWII. Funny how things turn out....

@ED-es2qv

3 жыл бұрын

@@knutdergroe9757 I’m not convinced. The US was eating the IJN lunch long before the impressive logistics were in place. I could argue intelligence and daring was winning the war before logistics became yet one more advantage.

@jukeboxhero1649

3 жыл бұрын

Gay people talk about decorating and fashion.

This video is fantastic. So many popular sources talk about Alexander's tactics that you'd think that's all that matters. But as Napoleon said, an army marches on its stomach. Without logistics nothing else is possible. The sophistication of the Macedonian army's logistics is one of the main reasons Alexander was able to do what he did. I'd really like to know how much of that came from Philip II, though. Philip's professionalization of the Macedonian army really seems to be the foundation of Alexander's success.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+UltraMegaSquirrel thank you! Yeah, I also read several times that Philipp II built the base, I guess this base in combination with Alexanders capabilities and his youth (usually more risk taking et al) was "deadly".

@UltraMegaSquirrel

8 жыл бұрын

I get the impression that Philip had the genius to build the most terrible army the world had seen at the time, and Alexander had the audacity and skill to use it to its fullest potential.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+UltraMegaSquirrel yeah, exactly. Audacity was the word I was "looking for". It is till missing from my active vocabulary.

@robevans8629

8 жыл бұрын

The Professionalism of the Macedonians was a big reason why it was successful. But not many leaders had the Boldness,forsite and brilliance on the battlefield as Alexander did. Alexander did more then Phillip ever dreamed.

@UltraMegaSquirrel

8 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. Alexander fulfilled his father's dreams and then some. Still I think it's because the bold genius of Alexander had its foundations in the organizational genius of Philip.

His voice became so much more confident and better over 5 years time. Love your videos. Your voice is steader in your newer videos

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

3 жыл бұрын

thanks, yeah, back then I was quite in a different "spot" in many ways.

@anthonygreenfield123

3 жыл бұрын

Makes sense, god bless@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

Also it was said that Alexander encouraged/required his soldiers to shave (copper razors were found at archaeological sites) because 1.) it looked neater 2.) enemies couldn't grab your beard in combat

@Emeengor

8 жыл бұрын

spartans did that as well inface they had also long hair (so that they wrap them arount their head to work as a cousion against the metal helmet.

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

Vito C it is said that he made his soldiers shave so the Persians cud grab their beards. I actually think he couldn't grow a full beard as proper males gree their beards out

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

cud not

@kenneth9874

Жыл бұрын

@@rickyg8462 if you think like you spell......

The principle of Logistics having equal or even superior importance to tactics and strategy, also applies to peacetime endeavors. A successful enterprise of any sort - business, political, humanitarian, scientific, cultural - relies on the adequate and constant prevision, production, assigning and provision of essential supplies in the quantities and times needed for the desired outcome of the endeavor. It is amazing how even modest logical improvements to the use of resources in our daily life dramatically improve our chances of success.

I have to say, I just found your channel and I have already been persuaded to subscribe. Not only do you cover the content swiftly, but also eloquently. The animations for your videos are superb. Thank you very much, you have just earned yourself a loyal viewer.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

thank you!!! omg, this was one of my first 10 videos, I think you will like what you going to see :)

@WildBillCox13

7 жыл бұрын

I still agree with Michael Foster. You present your material and conclusions well and convincingly.

People talk about Alexander being overrated and reckless...aside from being history's greatest besieger and the finest of calvary captain...he was master of logistics...an army does not successfully campaign from the Peloponnese all the way into India by accident

@enyalios316

7 жыл бұрын

Most of the territory conquered by Genghis Khan was actually less populated than most of the regions in Alexanders Empire (for example the nomad steppes). So it is more easily to conquer these places. Genghis lived till 1227 wich means the greatest part of the mongol empire was conquered by his successors. And even then, no man in history has ever conquered that much in only 11 years like Alexander did.... and he did not even hastened. It took him for example 3 months to get his ass out of Babylon

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

Sethu Maruthi Chennapragada Genghis Khan was brilliant as well

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I agree...There were legit empires in mainland Europe during that time... Conquering Persia was what made him unprecedented...There are theories that Alexander was going too pursue a European campaign...But died too young...Arabia n perhaps Carthage were perhaps his immediate objectives

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

There weren't I mean

@enyalios316

7 жыл бұрын

***** The thing is that Alexander died in such a young age. Who knows what he would have conquered if he survived. Arabia? Carthage? Rome? Both would have been defeated since Carthage was a naval power (but even then Makedon had a stronger navy) and Rome wasn't that progressed at the time. The Greeks had colonies in the whole Mediterranean Sea... Alexander sure would have taken them too. I also think that you can't really compare them scince Genghis lived 1500 years later. Alexander expanded eastwards in order to strenghten his relation with the greek cities. The east was also way richer than the west. So it's obvious why he did that...

Before Philip and Alexander, the Persians under Darius I and Xerxes had been repelled by a smaller force - these men of Greece fought unlike anyone and anything the Persians had ever experienced. By the time of Alexander, the fighting force that took him across both Greece and Persia had been perfected. He crossed Asia into India, often fighting a force that outnumbered him. His use of the phalanx and cavalry, combined with an innate sense of command, put his enemy on the defensive, enabling him to never lose a battle. His memory would live on and his determination brought the Hellenic culture to Asia. He built great cities and changed forever the customs of a people.

Tactics win battles logistics win wars.

@MrMinevision1

5 жыл бұрын

Battles decide the winners of wars

@Derperfier

5 жыл бұрын

MrMinevision1 Hannibal won Cannae, 1/5 of Rome’s adult male population but still lost due to Bad Logistics, (Carthage not giving him extra men)

Which Alexandria are you talking about? The dude loved to name cities after himself.

@lucienward2813

8 жыл бұрын

yes what other alexander lead a macidonian army to conquer all of the middle east, egypt, persia and pakistan

@MakeMeThinkAgain

8 жыл бұрын

"AlexanDRIA" not "Alexander."

@thepoetandwit6513

8 жыл бұрын

+MakeMeThinkAgain The root of the city name derives directly from Alexander. Just the same as Barcelona from Barca's (Hannibal's family). Any other examples folks?

@smitty7988

7 жыл бұрын

The city of Mahon in the Mediterranean is named after Hannibal's brother, Mago. They used to make a great egg sauce there, which is now known worldwide as mayonnaise, so mayonnaise is basically named after Mago! I know it's not quite what you were asking for, but I thought it as an interesting little bit of trivia hahaha

@teriyakichicken1848

7 жыл бұрын

The Poet and Wit I read Barcelona was never actually named after the Barcids.

Absolutely dope video, great production. I rather recently found this channel and it is by far My favorite find in quite some time. Top notch brother!

Thank you very much for making this. In my opinion logistics is ignored in most military history.

Mmm. That feeling you get when the video is all about logistics, and it just so happens to be what you're getting your masters in.

@MalaKrekar

7 жыл бұрын

3rdOfficerTaylor haha

@siler7

5 жыл бұрын

master's

Wow, you've improved so much since this one 0.0 Keep it up!

Nice video !! Respect from Greece

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

thank you!

@mohamedelhaddade6371

7 жыл бұрын

Criminology 101 lol no one care

@DavidAkhter

6 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares about your shit mauryan empire streetshitter

This video is enlightening. When I was young, I thought Alexander simply marched his army. I didn't know it was that sophisticated. Most likely it was the same with other conquerors (Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, etc.).

9 Persians disliked this video. "Damn those Macedonians!"

@theholyhay1555

5 жыл бұрын

Cheryl they are the Iranian people ! Dude Iran separates itself from the Arab world

@mabidinberk

5 жыл бұрын

@Cheryl Whaat? That's pretty ignorant.

@mabidinberk

5 жыл бұрын

@Cheryl lol, there's just four magic word around here. Y-O-U D-O-N-T K-N-O-W G-E-N-E-T-I-C-S

@outdatedtank4542

4 жыл бұрын

@Cheryl persians in disguise

Love it! I'm glad there not only WW2 videos on your channel

Despite all flaws a well-balanced view and as far as I know my sources well supported. Thanks!

I like your analises, they are always mature and consider some key aspects of the conflit which are usually not mentioned, some people prefer to look just at tactics and the fight itself and forget that in order to have a army marching there is another army helping in the background...

Glad I found your channel!

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

welcome!

Excellent video!

Great videos!

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Long Thank you!

I think this is one of your best vids. Maybe it has even better suited graphics, animations and vocal expression than some of your newer ones. Please make more of these :) Edit - Maybe to pinpoint my argument: I think the heavier use of colors made it more suited to a "vizualized" channel :)

I have heard it said that amateurs study tactics and strategy, but professionals study logistics. Excellent video! edit for spelling

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

7 жыл бұрын

thank you! Be sure to check out my newer videos that one is of my earliest it is of quite low quality compared to current standards.

TY for discussing this highly important but little spoken of aspect of Alexanders campaign.

An excellent book on the subject is 'Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army,' by Donald W. Engels

Rumours say the Persians are still butt-hurt over their defeat.

Loving the graphics in this episode/

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+Omanjack thank you! Already making some new ones :)

One tip, at 1:04 you should have put the definitions on screen. Great video anyway!

@whitefalcon4856

8 жыл бұрын

Also, always try to have something happening on the screen at all times.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+White Falcon yeah, you are right. Sometimes a go a bit too far with eliminating words from my slides. thx!

@whitefalcon4856

8 жыл бұрын

+Military History I do really like your clean, minimalist style of presentation but sometimes you need a little bit more information on screen just to keep our senses stimulated.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+White Falcon yeah, when I jumped to that time stamp I could immediately see your point. If you spot something again, please let me know.

awesome video

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

thank you!

Great video, only the Greeks weren't Mercenaries. Alexander was Hegemon of a united Greek army with the exception of Sparta. The League of Corinth, also known as the Hellenic League was a federation of Greek states created by Philip II of Macedon during the winter of 338 BCE/337 BCE that united to take on Persia. The Greeks that were mercenaries were fighting on the foreign Persian side. As Arrian records in a speech Alexander made, "There are Greek troops, to be sure, in Persian service but how different is their cause from ours! They will be fighting for pay and not much of it at that; we, on the contrary, shall fight for Greece, and, our hearts will be in it."

@anderskorsback4104

7 жыл бұрын

As long as they aren't a permanent part of their employer's military organization, but instead have temporarily hired themselves out for him, they are mercenaries. Whether they fight for the side that some nationalist thinks they rightly should fight for is irrelevant.

6 жыл бұрын

The Greek Hoplites from Mainland Greece were not Mercenaries even by your logic then. They fought from the start to the end as part of the League of Corinth / Hellenic League. After liberating the Ionian Colonies they joined the League and sent armies to aid as well. There were not many mercenaries and most mercs weren't hoplites or Hellenes.

@denidefaux9760

5 жыл бұрын

The Greeks considered Macedonians sub humans they call them barbarians coz they speak foreign languages however Alexander has the greatest admiration for the Greek culture unlike his father who hated the Greeks

@johngurlides9157

5 жыл бұрын

@@denidefaux9760 Macedonians were - and are - Greeks. The southern Greeks called them barbarians because of their manner of dress and lack of culture, not because they spoke a different language!

@deepdungeon8465

2 жыл бұрын

@@johngurlides9157 he a slav, even the Persians called the Macedons Yauna Takabara (Greeks with shieldlike hats). LMAO

I've love your videos (I only found them last week), but sometimes nothing moves on screen for a considerable time - 34 seconds in this case. I would appreciate it if you had something move during these long visual breaks because I worry the video froze while the audio carries on.

That was a great video but i would like a second about Alexander if you can.PLEASE about how the battlew were been. i mean how he moved his soldiers this kind of stuff

I would assume Alexander did a good job of employing ab adapting the logistical structure Philip had assembled.

@Djlawson1000

7 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, he was practically raised learning everything about his father's new kind of war making!

@kakhagvelesiani3877

7 жыл бұрын

Phillip never had to face with such logistic challenges like Alexander . Ultimately it was Alexander who had to provide for his army during campaigns , set up logistic and operational bases , prepare and cover communication lines , while doing it on great variety of terrain ( deserts , mountains , jungles and etc. ) and variety of seasons.

Manpower recruitment and reinforcement could be considered part of logistics (supply of men). In the same way, education and training could be part of it too.

1 Persian saw this video.

@BrianCaramore

8 жыл бұрын

2 now

@tomaszmagierowski2166

8 жыл бұрын

Now 6

@Blue4Skies1

8 жыл бұрын

now 9

@dubsy1026

8 жыл бұрын

No, he used 10 of his accounts

@saeedvazirian

7 жыл бұрын

Actually non-Persians quite agree that this video is bullshit, too. Alexander managed to conquer Persia only because it was a financially unstable time in the region. Had it had more stability, Alexander the Brat would be dead meat in his first attempt. Plus, he failed at the actual 'conquest' and adopted Persian ways. That's not conquering. That's losing to those you conquered and ironically getting, well, conquered yourself. The Persians win.

Good job !

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+Glitch thank you!

Well done. "Mules" is pronounced mewls or myoolz. Similarly "bureaucracy" is byoo-rock-ruh-see. Other than that missing "y" sound, you're speaking well -- and of course the content is what counts. That was interesting and trustworthy. Thank you.

Tactics wins fights, strategy wins battles and logistics wins wars.

What is most on my mind in regard to Alexander's conquests is how he was able to get the local populace of the various areas on his side, or at least, complacent, about him suddenly coming in and taking over. Modern armies today, with the huge repository of knowledge, can't seem to get it right. What did he do to pull it off?

@williamarnold3607

7 жыл бұрын

simple an Imperial cult. Its where you make yourself look like a divine entity

@juicyjfan

7 жыл бұрын

william arnold *entity*

@williamarnold3607

7 жыл бұрын

better?

I seriously want to get into some serious tabletop gaming with this cat.

I can not hear the audio. It is too quiet. Please record at higher level. Great videos! Please keep it up!

@anthonygreenfield123

3 жыл бұрын

The sound level is fine, u need bigger speakers

A good follow-up to this would use a map to show how Alexander's strategy guarded his supply line, by capturing the Med coast before heading into Mesopotamia. The thing is, I have never read how Alexander dealt with Persia in his supply line, did he live off the captured territory from then on? What about Pakistan, Alexander came from the north, did he have wagon trains all the way across Persia and Afghanistan bringing everything he needed?

@kenneth9874

Жыл бұрын

He had a fleet as well

@tommy-er6hh

Жыл бұрын

@@kenneth9874 How does a fleet help when Alex moved from Afghanistan into N Pakistan? not a whole lot of water in that area.

All this in only 13 years Nothing short of a miracle

Another interesting segment and thanks for posting. And a Wild Bill soapbox moment: It's hard to imagine warfare taking place in an atmosphere of total ignorance of one's enemy, his organization, his probable composition, routes of march, and, most important, the absence of any and all accurate maps. It was tough enough for the Wehrmacht to invade the East in the face of the Soviet tendency toward disabusal of any comprehensive data concerning the state of roads and cities between the western edge of Ukrania and the Soviet Union capital of Moskva. Those 500 miles were practically terra incognita, despite possession of guidebooks, personal accounts, and availability of aerial reconnaissance. Aleksander had even less. Moreover, during the period in question, conception of medicine was laughable in the face of modern understanding of the subject, amounting to prayers to various gods and sacrifices at hastily arranged shrines to same. Most deep wounds resulted in death in those days. My rather blithe assumption about this is based on the well publicized state of the art during the American Civil War, where amputation (followed by cauterization) was far more common than antiseptic treatment and general sanitation. And, as we know today, general sanitation is far more responsible for survival than any medical treatments. There was no such science in Aleksander's day. His men (and almost everyone in the ancient world) were rife with parasites and contagion . . . especially malarial plasmodia, typhus, and cholera . . . not to mention . . . er . . . venereal disease. Grains and corn are far more transportable without spoilage than fresh fruits and vegetables, on the one hand, but provide far less nutrition, on the other. One can only imagine the effect this would have on an army's will to fight far from home. Though they can fill the belly, bread and cornmeal do little to keep bones and teeth and gums healthy. The mystique of the great man's headlong rush toward the unknown is more attractive to us now than it might have been to the average Macedonian farmer or peasant, whose whole mind and effort was directed toward maintenance of day to day existence in a fairly hospitable, and better known, homeland.

3000 here, 60000 there... man in the middle ages a 1000 years later, they called a battle with 200 knights a major war...

@edi9892

6 жыл бұрын

Seriously, I wonder why everything got scaled down in the middle ages, except for the crusades.

@albertrayjonathan7094

6 жыл бұрын

+edi The decentralization of power and the proliferation of castles. Basically, the decentralization of power in Europe meant that minor lords and nobles had every incentive to build castles and fortifications to protect their lands against their neighbors. This had knock on effects on the size of armies. Cavalry garrisoned inside castles can sally out to strike at foraging parties, so castles and fortifications exert a zone of control over the local area which reduces the efficacy of enemy foraging parties. The primary way armies fed themselves before the Frederickian depot system in the early modern era was by foraging. So the increase of castles, coupled with the massive improvements in cavalry due to the introduction of the saddle, meant that foraging became much less effective, which in turn decreased the size of the army you can properly feed. The only way to curtail a castle's ability to disrupt your foraging, and thus your logistics, is by putting it under siege, but due to the proliferation of castles, there were just too many castles you needed to siege to properly feed a large force. So lords were forced to use smaller armies due to logistical constraints. Later, as gunpowder artillery developed, it became possible to simply assault castles rather than spending time and personnel putting it under siege. This meant that many castles turned into speed bumps rather than proper defensive assets, which in turn meant that foraging parties are now more viable than before, which in turn allowed for larger armies. Coupled with agricultural improvements, this culminated with the ridiculously ginormous armies of the Napoleonic era. Note that the crusades were mainly fought in the Middle East, where decentralization was much less prevalent, and thus there were fewer castles, which meant that foraging was a lot more effective. Even then, the Crusaders had many logistical issues, and often had to resort to cannibalism. Supplying a large army was extremely difficult until a method to quickly assault fortifications (cannon and mortar) proliferated. A similar pattern actually exists in the ancient world. Before the Greeks had effective siege engines, wars and battles were fought by relatively small armies. After effective siege engines and siege tactics proliferated, armies became bigger as foraging became easier. Eventually, the train, the truck, and the modern ship made foraging unnecessary, which allowed for the ridiculously massive armies of the world wars.

@edi9892

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

From 0:43 to 1:18 you have literally nothing going on onscreen! Over 30 s of blank screen is really a massive chunk for the viewer to have nothing to look at. There are some easy solutions, for example in this case you could have put some text up, better yet you could have each word appear as you say it. If you want to be on camera these moments can be filled with video of you talking. You could also make a cartoon of yourself (like CGPGrey has of his stick figure at his desk) to fill in those gaps.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

+Soliloquy thx, yeah, it was an oversight. Good idea about the CGPGrey reference, I saw it, but didn't consciously recognize it as "rhetorical device" so far!

@anonviewerciv

8 жыл бұрын

Pictures of each thing would have been better and is more in line with the style of this channel.

hey, if you're interested i have an articleon the logistics of the byzantines around the 9th and 10th century AD i think i'll send it your way at some point

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

thx for the offer, but I first need to sort through all the stuff I got and also unpack all my stuff (just moved).

Is it possible to edit the closed captions to make them more accurate? This video is interesting, but it is not always easy to pick out the words, so accurate captions would be helpful.

omg...as a fan of mass production and assembling......25,000 set of armor.....that is amazing

Great Video. Your accent though! You're from Germany?

Excellent Vid as always. May I make some suggestions? A book you might like on this subject is "Alexander the Great and Logistics of the Macedonian Army" by Donald W. Engels. -He goes into how much food a man required, how much a horse could carry and how much the horse would consume and more. Book. "The Generalship of Alexander the Great" by Major-General J.F.C. Fuller. -I've just started it but Fuller goes into some logistics and there is much interesting material that an army must consider besides fighting. In several of the other books I've read on Alex it is mentioned that segments of his army marched some 35 miles a day for three or four days. I discounted that that was possible until one author mentioned that an army of Napoleon did the same, crossing the Alps on its way to Verona. The best book, in my opinion, is "Alexander of Macedon" by Peter Green. Green is co-host to a docu on KZread that I haven't had the chance to watch yet. I would like to see a vid about how far historical armies marched on average and also in an emergency doing a comparison over all. I would also like to see a series of vids on logistics from Alex on up through the 19th century. I have a number of book on this is you would like a list.

13 Persians dislike this video

You have a very strong accent. I noticed you pronounced cavalry as "cavalary" which was a bit funny, to be honest. I understand this is one of your first videos, and you may have probably gotten better with pronunciation by now. I came from the Great War Channel. Saw your comment.

Are you familiar with Donald W Engels, "Alexander the Great and the Logistics of the Macedonian Army"? To my knowledge, it's the only book-length work on the subject.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

I found out about it after I did the video. I was rather astonished to realize that his book was released a few years before the article I was using as a main source for this video, in which the author states that there was no proper research done so far... probably missed it or the book of articles was delayed (conference papers if I remember correctly). Yeah, also German.

The real advantages that the allies had over the axis were indeed their better equipped logistic corps.

vanilla days of warfare logistics , still impressive ...

@JeanLucCaptain

7 жыл бұрын

impressive? that an understatement, this guy conqued the 3rd largesat empire IN HISTORY, second only to geghis khan & the British empire 1/5 of the world, but that was much much later.

It should never be overlooked that Alexander inherited an already existing empire and the world's first professional standing army- both of which were created by his father Philip II. Additionally, the available sources make clear that Alexander's army (notably his heavy cavalry) was larger than is commonly believed. Lastly, logistical considerations make the huge Persian force highly unlikely.

Your accent is funny, nice video dude.

Alexander is repeated over and over in history. "He conquered everything he laid eyes on." But by one or two generations after his death, the empire fell apart. Conquerors tend not to leave strong empires behind themselves. Behind the glory is always massive debt and those waiting for an opportunity to carve off a piece of the empire (minus the debt of course).

“Other forms of entertainment” probably included some form of brothels etc.

more good stuff from Germany. many thanks.

You missed the Persian Gulf on your map!

Why Alexander never looked to the West? I wonder... Was the West (East Europe in fact) that NOT appealing? Hmmm... Anyway, GREAT content, great animation. I have subscribed, of course. I graduated in history but one cannot know all on every topics, right? I appreciate what you are doing. Keep it up.

@jrodowens

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, it is quite interesting - had Alexander not died he would have done just that. Sources (scant unfortunately and I'm sorry that I don't know off-hand which source(s) indicate that Alexander planned to continue campaigning after a short respite - first, with the conquest of the coastal Arab city-states and presumably Felix Arabia (Yemen.) Apparently, Alexander did indeed forsee expanding the Macedonian empire west to the Pillars of Heracles.. I believe Carthage is mentioned explicity as being in the bullseye - and if the Roman Republic isn't mentioned as such, you can believe it would have been inevitable. Lot of interesting what if's to imagine ..to me I would love to see what his justification for conquering Rome and Carthage would be, though I suppose being Alexander he needed none.

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

Mario Pierre the west had no quality targets...Rome was in its infancy...Persia was by the best for the taking

@christiancristof491

6 жыл бұрын

χρονης κ. You done?

@kenneth9874

Жыл бұрын

Persia was the greatest threat at the time

Hi, I would like to contact you via direct message on twitter, since I would like to ask your permission to use some of the materials presented here inside our twitter page discussion.. Where can I contacted you for such matters? Thank you very much; your video has been very educational..

I'm writing a story is there a general guide on how far armies can March from their homelands and stay supplied? Can an army of 25,000 March 1000 miles outside their kingdom and without enemy interference maintain enough supplies? And what tactics might an army do to protect it's supply lines as I imagine some times they pass near garrisoned castles that they are not attacking. Would the army be vulnerable to being cut off from supplies in that situation?

@JayM409

2 жыл бұрын

Unless an army is being supplied by sea and are close to the port, or supplied by a navigable river, they would need to gain all their supplies from the areas they are transiting. That means planning an advance through farm country and to coincide with the harvest. If the advance is rapid enough, like Alexander's, towns and cities can be surprised and forced to surrender, thereby providing supplies. Success breads success. In Anatolia, the Satraps were advised by their Greek-born General to retreat and burn all supplies and grazing land. Their Zoroastrian religion would not allow that, so their only chance to stop Alexander was lost. Ancient armies could only carry a few days worth of supplies with them on the march, so they were always on the verge of starvation, particularly if they stopped for a siege. A small army is easier to feed and marches faster than a large army. Depending on conditions, your army could march 12-15 miles a day. You would require 3 lbs of food a day for the men, plus 10 lbs of grain and 10 lbs of grazing per day for all animals. 5000 horses would require 50,000 lbs of grain and another 50,000 lbs of fodder per day, add to that the 75,000 lbs of food per day for the men. If there is plenty of grazing, then your army will still need to transport 125,000 lbs for a single day, 250K for two, and 500k for only four days. Over 3,000 pack animals will be required for the latter. If you use an average of 15 miles per day, that means you will be on campaign for more than 3 months (resting every 7 days). Those 25,000 men would have to include servants, in order to lead the pack animals, carry the tents, the wounded, and act as grooms and cooks, about 8,000. This is why the modern idea supply lines don't work. A pack animal can carry 200 lbs, plus pack saddle. For every day it travels it eats 10 lbs of its cargo. Its handler eats 3 lbs. In ten days travel, it eats 100 lbs and its handler 30. The further the army travels, the larger the number of pack animals needed. If the army above was ten days from a supply depot, each pack animal would only deliver 70 lbs of grain. If it travelled 15 days, only 5 lbs would remain. it would require 25,000 animals to deliver 1 days ration to the army.

OH HELLLLLLLL YES

I too have problems saying Cavalry

"Professionals study logistics".... it occurred to me that Alexander didn't stray from the established communications routes and resources of the empire he conquered except, for a very few cases. Is it safe to assume that there wasn't much else worth taking at that time in the history of the region...?

@JeanLucCaptain

7 жыл бұрын

& the canadian navy provided convoy escorts! oh shit, wrong war....

@kenneth9874

Жыл бұрын

When you conquer a city you've got the countryside as well

Alexander the Destroyer!

Instead of burning things ,if they had distributed among people, the people might have supported them

He's "the great" for a reason

Wait, so burning the baggage trains RAISED the moral of the soldiers? Wouldn't they be pissed for having to let go of their spoils?

and i thought he left india because he was getting beaten in battle and his troopers were going to kill him and leave or just desert because they wanted to go home.

reknutment! 2:00

HA! I loved the Skyrim and Fallout reference regarding loot. I always wind up over encumbered and have to decide what to drop.

7:15 I don't understand. He burned his wagons and that made his morale and movement speed increase? Movement I can kind of see, because wagons are hard to move in mountains, but wouldn't this force your soldiers to carry the supplies, thus weighing them down and taking away their ability to hoard spoils? That sounds like something that would severely *dampen* morale.

@lPhoenixGloryl

7 жыл бұрын

maybe i heard wrong, but i thought he meant he burned through some of the supplies rapidly, meaning a few days of lavish living for the soldiers. Making the soldiers happier and able to move.

@factsabouturmum9250

7 жыл бұрын

Nick Daoust OH! Oh. Yeah, that does make a lot more sense.

@rickyg8462

7 жыл бұрын

Homini Lupus His father banned all wheeled vehicles bc they hindered force marches

@WildBillCox13

7 жыл бұрын

And it might be good to consider the classic myth associated with Odysseus before Troy, who ordered his ships burned to stiffen the resolve of his men for the coming battle. This "tradition" of "No Surrender and No Retreat" was most likely a strong one in the minds of all military men of the age.

@factsabouturmum9250

7 жыл бұрын

William Cox That's 'dead ground' logic, yeah; if you put men where there is no retreat they will fight to the last and not one of them will desert, simply out of survivalist need... But in this case he did it to increase troop speed and morale rather than remove retreat. I can see how ditching the wagons might increase troop speed in the mountains... But I don't see how forcing your men to march on meager supplies, which they must themselves carry, and having them leave loot behind, could possibly boost morale. Not only that, but it creates a problem of burden and unpreparedness in any event short of a pitched battle. That is, troops laden with food and supplies will not respond as readily to an ambush, nor will they hold a line very well which is absolutely crucial to the use of a Greek phalanx. In order to fight they must first shed some baggage and prepare. And finally it adds one hell of a hurdle to sieges... You now have to forage for materials and food before you even have the resources available to contemplate launching a siege, and even then you must finish the siege very, very fast, lest your camp be forced to move away from the site being attacked, purely out of need for supplies. True, much of this could be mitigated by a policy of taking crops and forage you happen across, as Alexander and many other ancient military leaders did all the time, but generally this is used to supplement, because it turns out to be bad policy to eat everything in sight and then try to march back over the same route.

Bist du Historiker oder Offizier? =D

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

ersteres

@Prometheukles

8 жыл бұрын

Ich geniesse dein Material sehr. Vielen Dank für die tolle Arbeit.

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

gern geschehen!

@graemesydney38

8 жыл бұрын

There's nothing quite like the 'state and maintain the aim' 'test the aim' objectivity of the military - it shows, concise and precise. 'Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics'. I find both interesting but I get blown away by the lack of appreciation and recognition of logistics both modern and ancient.

Logistics is the most essential part of warfare. Thats what the US is so good at it, they excel at logistics.

@WildBillCox13

7 жыл бұрын

I agree completely. Our quick mastery of logistical concepts in great part enable our continuing presence in many lands, and contributed to our successes during several wars.

@solarfreak1107

7 жыл бұрын

There is a saying that goes, "amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics."

7 жыл бұрын

Sgt.Fury And making sure that the American public are behind the military, except for Vietnam

@albertgrant6670

7 жыл бұрын

Sgt.Fury You are absolutely correct.As the saying goes amateurs talk of strategy and tactics professional talk of logistics Cpt.Albert OGrant II Signal Corp Inactive.

@NOF4C3

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah your leaders are bad at decision making.

The Algorithm is picking up a lot of videos Putin apparently didn't watch.

have you read 33 strategies of war written by robert greene??

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

I sold it lately, after some discussions with people that are really in military history. It is more about those strategies in real life interactions than in military history. I probably read a chapter when I originally bought it, at its release, which was several years ago.

@kristiansen1012

8 жыл бұрын

i really recommend the audio books on KZread. i really enjoyed it, i know its mostly about strategies of real life and that is why i like it. the story's in the books of Napoleon and other leaders are told from a different view point then you see in normal history books

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

8 жыл бұрын

I heard one part about passive aggressiveness on Sargons channel, but for me to a certain degree that is known already from various years of personal development, right now the implementation is more important. I focused too long on knowledge and too little on execution. The first is quite easy to me, but second isn't yet.

Wasn't Alexander 32 years old when he died?

I imagine he wouldn’t be though of as highly as he is, is due to his death. He wouldn’t have been able to keep his empire.

@kenneth9874

Жыл бұрын

In your opinion

Good video! Greetings from the Macedonians!

Whats Pella? Is that Bylazora?

who was his logistics man

please make a video on Battle of Palkhed that occured in India and you can google it and see besides i have a link too indiafacts.org/the-battle-of-palkhed/ there is another interesting battle called Battle of Longewala in 1971 when West Pakistan invaded with tank regiment on Longewala post on side of India on december 4th night and Indian army with just 120 men of 23 Punjab regiment with just two anti tank jeeps defended the post without air support till first light of dawn and by then both sides got reinforced and air force played havoc on pakistan tanks. casualites on Indian side just 2 men while pakistan lost over 40 tanks and retreated. thanks a lot. there is also a video named Hunters at dawn which gives you some information.

Indus river is pronounced "Indas" and not "Induus"

@icedwhitechocolatemochafra9851

5 жыл бұрын

Siama Ch dude hes german.

Congratulations...you make really interesting videos.....You really need to improve your pronounciation though, beacause it is greatly difficult to understand what you say. At least put some comprehensible subtitles since the ones provided by youtube is not reliable

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

7 жыл бұрын

thx, this is one of my earliest videos, the pronunciation should be better nowadays (also I use more text now). Don't have time for subtitles, but I approve them when the community adds them, which sometimes happens.

where you got army size numbers from? I mean these numbers sound ridiculous to me. Imagine biggest greek cities at that time were about 5000 people. In worst case, when cities were desperate they could send about 100 troops each. Imagine in all Hellenic these were 100 that big cities which makes 10.000 troops that all Hellenic cities could call for in its hardest times. I bet Alexander had up to a thousand troops but more likely few hundreds. I know that ancient greeks were great wariors but they also were a good storytellers

@Djlawson1000

7 жыл бұрын

Heres something to think about, Alexander did not muster his army! His father Philip II created it for his plans of conquering the entire greek peninsula, he would've had plenty of time to muster a large force that we know could've existed at the time. In fact, Alexander's force was remarkably small for how much they conquered and in such little time. You know how large the force of Darius I at the battle of Gaugamela (spelling) was? somewhere around 100,000 combatants!

@irakliskitidis

7 жыл бұрын

Ayrat Zaynutdinov Athens was actually really big city it had at least 200.000 written citizens (Adult males) at around 300 BC. It was a massive city many times larger than the other Greek city states and it was fed through trade with the rest of the world just like the modern cities and countries can have access in every resourse since the area around them can't support such big population on its own.

@irakliskitidis

7 жыл бұрын

Greeks also had many great historians. Not just storytellers but they were like actual reporters. This is the list of Greek historians along side Alexander's campaign. So you can be sure that they are not just myths en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Historians_who_accompanied_Alexander_the_Great

@Ayratzay

7 жыл бұрын

Hercules k today Athens population is 700k total and they can not feed themselves without EU help how could similarly huge population feed themselves at those times?

BCE, CE not Fairy Tail dates!

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

2 жыл бұрын

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@John-sh7rh

2 жыл бұрын

@@MilitaryHistoryVisualized Common Era, Before Common Era not Before Christ, Anno Domini (AD) "in the year of our Lord."

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

2 жыл бұрын

@@John-sh7rh ah well

Alexander united Greece, in one pan-hellenic army. Macedonian the very name is Greek. Its the toponimy.

@williamarnold3607

7 жыл бұрын

well technically it was his farther Philip II who conquered most of Greece, with Alexander joining the wars in 540BC when they tried to take Byzantium (Istanbul/Constantinople).By this time most of the key city states were under their control excluding Sparta and if i'm correct the last major campaign before Philip's death

Alexander the great was macedonian not greek

@SurvivorIce

5 жыл бұрын

He was born in Pella in greek kingdom of Macedon. Also Alexander was 1/2 Molossian from his mother side. Molossians were also greek tribe from Epirus.

Haste beim Bund studiert oder zivil?

@MilitaryHistoryVisualized

7 жыл бұрын

Zivil

Nice Video !! From The Republic Of Macedonia !!!!

@enyalios316

7 жыл бұрын

Don't try to provocate certain things... I can name you more reasons than acually needed why your people have nothing to do with the ancient Makedonians and you will not have the ability to prove me wrong because of HISTORICAL FACTS!!!!!!! If you would be a reasonable person who really depends on HISTORICAL FACTS you would get what I mean and accept the HISTORICAL FACT that Makedonia is a part of Greece's History

@MalaKrekar

7 жыл бұрын

Thessalos aren't modern Macedonians Slavic ?

@enyalios316

7 жыл бұрын

Rand Aram That's right

@MalaKrekar

7 жыл бұрын

Thessalos are you Greek?

@enyalios316

7 жыл бұрын

Yes

why would burning baggage wagons of his army raise their morale? this doesn't make sense

@DavidAkhter

7 жыл бұрын

By doing so he showed his men there was no other way to go but forward to earn more loot since they had officially just lost all their prized possessions.

@ogreycloud

7 жыл бұрын

if some one burns my hard earned loot i will be upset and feel unmotivated. what u are saying is not what a soldier would usually feel.

@eddy-currents

7 жыл бұрын

It's because everyone, including Alexander, had their stuff burnt. Which means that Alexander had the most to lose since he would have got the biggest share of the loot. Also, his soldiers respect his ability and fear his power. This show of power is to show them that they should sacrifice their present for the future that they can have, to show them that what they have now is actually insignificant as compared to what they can achieve if they make sacrifices now.

@ogreycloud

7 жыл бұрын

this makes more sense. but did he give them a speech or something to make sure they got the correct message

@eddy-currents

7 жыл бұрын

It was common place for soldiers to be given the opportunity to loot, so it is probably implicitly understood by them. Moreover, fear of what your leader could do to you (executions, torture, etc.) is often a more powerful motivational force than words.

I like your videos but you are clearly struggling with English, try to go over the hard words few times before making it in to the video.

@JeanLucCaptain

7 жыл бұрын

i actually like his accent!

@edocusack4348

7 жыл бұрын

His english s absolt fine... accent s cool....just keep doing ur vids..u got a new subscriber, sir.

@WCSPriest

7 жыл бұрын

No need to lie man. Also your English is horrible, so it's not like you have a voice on this matter.

@JeanLucCaptain

7 жыл бұрын

Rock Bottom now now, play nice:)