The shift to long-range weapons fundamentally changed the rules of military engagement

Evidence

As Lanchester worked through his models, he discovered that out of all the countless advances in types and styles and sizes of weapons that punctuated the history of human warfare, one change altered the rules of engagement more dramatically than any other: the deployment of long-range weapons such as guns and artillery. The way that troops killed each other in the past, when soldiers faced up man-to-man and clashed in combat hand-to-hand, was fundamentally different from the way they killed each other post-firearms. — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 231

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The effectiveness of the long-bow altered the dynamics of battle. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 536; Dominant weapons become obsolete when their intended fights never occur — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 456; Infantry archery transformed warfare dynamics in England. — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 464 (+1 more)

Related

• Infantry archery transformed warfare dynamics in England. (similarity 0.84)
• Concentrated longbow fire let outnumbered English forces defeat armored knights (similarity 0.82)
• The effectiveness of the long-bow altered the dynamics of battle. (similarity 0.82)
• Cheap long-range weapons eroded the battlefield value of expensive armor. (similarity 0.80)
• Pushing siege weapons to longer range only drove artillery growth (similarity 0.80)
• Firearms made troop numbers count quadratically rather than linearly in battle (similarity 0.79)
• Animal weapons can evolve rapidly within just seven generations (similarity 0.79)
• Human fortifications and artillery evolve via the same arms-race logic as animal weapons (similarity 0.78)
• Weapon growth widens the gap between the best- and worst-armed males. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The effectiveness of the long-bow altered the dynamics of battle. #exemplifies (0.80) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 536
• Infantry archery transformed warfare dynamics in England. #exemplifies (0.80) — Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking…, 464
• Precision weaponry expands rather than confines the battlefield to the whole world. #expands (0.70)
• Dominant weapons become obsolete when their intended fights never occur #qualifies (0.50) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 456