Military supremacy

The supremacy relates to the state of superiority on the military level that a warlike technology, and thus the power holding it, can have on the others.

This strategic superiority is required to obtain the victory over the Battle field. Once held by a camp, the unfavourable strategist must circumvent it on the plan Tactique by the definition of its plane of war.

Terrestrial supremacy

during Antiquity: the infantryman

the Greek phalange

The development of the Greek phalange ensures the victory of the city-States of Greece Antique over their adversaries. Equipped with Lance S, the Hoplite S of the phalange resist the frontal shocks launched to the attack. This concept of compact unit of Infanterie will be continued until the time of the Napoleonean wars, with the Napoleonean Carré.

the Roman legion

The Roman Légion is distinguished from the phalange by the abandonment of the Pilum, the Roman lance, with the profit of the Glaive. This evolution makes following the bag of Rome carried out by Brennus, chief of the Celtic tribe of Sennons, in 390 av. J. - C. (see, in the detailed article, the chronology of the Celts) . Rome continues the modernization of its armies throughout its victories, arriving to military doctrines applied. If Rome loses finally supremacy at the time of the Great invasions, it is thus not ascribable with a deficit of military technique.

during the Middle Ages: the knight

This supremacy of the assembled rider was so determining that it constitutes one of the limiting identified between the Antiquité and the Middle Ages. The riding heavy, barded of sound armor with plates, will be annobli, become a knight then, during the introduction of the military Ordres religious, will constitute the armed wing of the medieval Chrétienté.

The knight is, to some extent, the “ armor-plated ” of the Middle Ages. Its superiority on the battle field will last until the Bataille of Azincourt in 1415, called the disaster of the Armagnacs (indicates the French knighthood). It is the end of the era of the knighthood and the beginning of the supremacy of the remote weapons on the fray.

In terms of military technique, this passage of medieval times at the time of the Renaissance is as outstanding as the Chute of Constantinople from a historical point of view.

Naval supremacy

during the Rebirth: Invincible Armada

In 1571, the battles of Lépante will give naval supremacy on the Mediterranean to the crown of Castille, which will be able to thus develop its colonial empire, conceding the development of that of Portugal according to the directives of the Vatican. This supremacy on the seas will be short; it will be completed in 1588 in the Manche, when the Galion S of the Invincible Armada meet the ships of Francis Drake, manoeuvrable.

during Modern times: Royal Navy

It will pass then to the crown of England at the time of the Modern times, which defines whereas the Royal Navy must be larger than the combined fleets of its two larger candidates, which ensures the domination of the oceans to him, in particular by taking the control of the strategic points of passage: Gibraltar in 1704, the Cape of Good Hope in 1795, and the Suez Canal in 1882.

Air supremacy

during the contemporary Time: U.S. Air Force

The ships and their fleets of support from now on are centered on Porte-avions with nuclear Propulsion (CVN) which project an air deterrent force on distances very far away from the naval base from fastening. This strategic design was implemented at the time of the war of the Pacific (1942-1945).

Atomic supremacy during the Cold war

The result of the Projet Manhattan during the summer 1945 gave diplomatic supremacy to the United States to force the rendering of Japan without having to unload on the Japanese islands, which was announced very expensive in human lives on the tactical level.

Atomic supremacy was not reached.

In this advent of the atomic era, Soviet will make up for lost time, and the precision of the intercontinental missiles of both Superpuissance S will bring a situation of balance of terror, expression that only the promise of a Fin of the history to leaving the Cold war could soften for the populations.

Space supremacy

Continuation of the described competition précédemnent, the end of the cold war did not put an end to the claims militarization of the suburbs of the terrestrial sphere.

See the detailed article Militarization of Space ().

Prolongations

Play of simulation

Suprématie is a play of plate left in 1987, to France at Descartes Editeur. The players control one of the six world powers there: Confederation of South America, Federation of the African States, Leagues European Nations, Popular republic of China, the United States of America and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. It is a play of conquest, but which integrates also important economic mechanisms and where the diplomacy is crucial. The total nuclear war risk is him-also simulated: if 12 territories are destroyed by atomic bombs, all the players lose the part.

See too the purpose of

the doctrines Impérialiste is to reach a total supremacy .

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