{"id":69703,"date":"2023-10-02T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=69703"},"modified":"2023-10-02T05:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T10:27:06","slug":"military-history-101-how-siege-warfare-returned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/military-history-101-how-siege-warfare-returned\/","title":{"rendered":"Military History 101: How Siege Warfare Returned"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69704 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Siege43.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Siege43.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Siege43-300x120.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"sf-article-content__title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/how-siege-warfare-returned\/\">How Siege Warfare Returned<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"sf-article-content__dropcap\">T<\/span>he history of war is never far removed from battles for cities.<\/h2>\n<h2>Many of us, of whatever creed, were brought up on the story of the walls of Jericho tumbling after the Israelites marched around the stronghold once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, and then blew their trumpets. Though no archaeological evidence at Tell es-Sultan, in modern Palestine, corroborates the arresting visual image related in Joshua, Chapter 6, diggers have uncovered a range of defensive stone and brick walls dating back to 8,000 BC. It indicates that even 10,000 years ago, the ancients indulged in the odd siege when the mood took them. The biblical story also introduces us to the concept of intimidation, today fashionably called \u201cpsychological warfare\u201d.<\/h2>\n<h2>The much younger fortress of Troy provides insights into another city-focussed era of battles. Beneath today\u2019s Hisarlik in northern Turkey are nine archaeological layers. Troy VIII was the alluring city of Classical and Hellenistic times, as portrayed in the\u00a0<i>Iliad<\/i>, Homer\u2019s\u00a0<i>Odyssey<\/i>\u00a0and Virgil\u2019s\u00a0<i>Aeneid<\/i>. The Romans took the lessons of Homeric Troy seriously and clad all their major settlements with defensive walls, as any exploration of Canterbury, Chester or York will confirm. These acted as magnets for opponents, as in Boudicca\u2019s revolt of AD 60\u201361. Cities such as Colchester, London and St Albans were sacked, as much for what they represented as for their physical presence.<\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/thecritic.co.uk\/how-siege-warfare-returned\/\">RTWT.<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>*Highly recommend <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=31645968105&amp;searchurl=ds%3D20%26kn%3D9780140284584%26sortby%3D17&amp;cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1\">Stalingrad<\/a>\u00a0<\/em> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=31637911417&amp;searchurl=kn%3D0142002801%26sortby%3D17&amp;cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title2\"><em>The Fall of Berlin<\/em><\/a> by Antony Beevor for Further Reading and Study on this Subject.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Siege Warfare Returned &nbsp; The history of war is never far removed from battles for cities. Many of us, of whatever creed, were brought up on the story of the walls of Jericho tumbling after the Israelites marched around the stronghold once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2280,3812,5525,4479,4333,10066,1286,6182,9803,1897,3321,11843,1898,1899],"tags":[928,16575,929,11752,7347,7636,16574,16576,15378,946,8123,1902],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69706,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69703\/revisions\/69706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}