Thorakitai medium infantry command WM-18-01-2024 This plan involved pushing through

This plan involved pushing through the southern Soviet Union to reach the Caucasus and secure the oil fields that Germany so desperately needed

One of the signature weapons of Rome was the Pilum

it was immediately apparent that the design owed much to the US Grizzly sharing an almost identical chassis

the lessons identified in Stalingrad

Thorakitai medium infantry command WM-18-01-2024 This plan involved pushing throughThe term Thorakitai plural Thorakites is used sparingly by Polybios to refer to Achaian and Seleucid troops of the mid second century BC. That they were armoured is plain enough Thorakitai means 'cuirassier' and Polybios' describes them as acting in support of lighter troops. It is likely they were armed with the long shield the theuros and in that respect they might be thought of as a more heavily armoured version of the Thureophoroi (shield