Fire power
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Fire power is a military concept rooted in the ability to direct a heavy weight of metal onto an enemy or enemy possession as measured by the concept of rate of fire. The concept is taught as one of the key principles of modern warfare wherein the enemy forces are destroyed or have their will to fight reduced to insignificance by sufficient and preferably overwhelming use of fire power on the field of battle.
Through the ages fire power has come to mean offensive power applied at a distance, as there is an immediate dissonance with the thought of one-on-one close quarters combat. Fire power is thus something which is employed to keep the enemy forces outside such ranges where even having superior numbers he can be defeated in detail or be sapped of his will to continue the contest of arms, and thus surrender his greater forces to the lesser force possessing the higher fire power.
History of fire power
The earliest forms of warfare that might be called fire power were the slingers of the Roman Legions and archery of the Parthanons, a Persian special cavalry unit. Eventually, the feared Huns would employ the composite bow and light cavalry tactics to shower arrow storms upon enemy forces, which later ability traveled to Great Britain, and it's famed Long bowmen during the various English-French conflicts known as the Hundred Years' Wars well before the Renaissance.Examples of fire power
- Battle of Crecy
- Battle of Agincourt
- Operation Desert Storm
- Second Gulf War
- Invasion of Iraq 2003
- Strike on Abu Musab Al Zarqawi
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