Not strictly martial arts but its quite related enough that I think this section is appropriate.
Two links I found.
Individual Fighter Warrior Culture and Team Work
Do Warrior cultures that focus on individual fighting lack the basic common sense team work when fighting in the battlefield? AS in Barbarians couldn't even think of something so simple as "distract a Roman soldier while my friends behead him from behind"? • /r/Military
Now considering many arguments of how RBSD and military style instructors bashing traditional martial arts because they focused too much on "individual fighting" I am quite curious.
I mean as the posters int he link state, the Warrior VS Soldier narrative has become so common that many people literally believe warriors are too busy dueling one-on-one that films and TV show them lacking the common sense to use simple teamwork tricks like throwing stones to force Macedonians into a shieldwall while sending warriors to surround said Macedonian and hit from a blind angle unprotected by as shieldwall.
I do think whoever wrote the two links both have a point. If school kids have the common sense to hide themselves than pop out of nowhere to surround another kid they want to beat up, it puts stain to the notion Warrior cultures such as Celts (and to a lesser degree martial artists such as Shaolin monks) are too focused on "individual combat" that they can't work as a team.
If a bunch of modern-day construction workers can send a guy to pin you on the wall while the rest of the construction team are hitting you, what makes it impossible for say an 8th century knight to think of something as simple as bearhugging a Muslim warrior and calling for other knights to behead said ensnared Muslim warrior?
Two links I found.
Individual Fighter Warrior Culture and Team Work
Do Warrior cultures that focus on individual fighting lack the basic common sense team work when fighting in the battlefield? AS in Barbarians couldn't even think of something so simple as "distract a Roman soldier while my friends behead him from behind"? • /r/Military
Now considering many arguments of how RBSD and military style instructors bashing traditional martial arts because they focused too much on "individual fighting" I am quite curious.
I mean as the posters int he link state, the Warrior VS Soldier narrative has become so common that many people literally believe warriors are too busy dueling one-on-one that films and TV show them lacking the common sense to use simple teamwork tricks like throwing stones to force Macedonians into a shieldwall while sending warriors to surround said Macedonian and hit from a blind angle unprotected by as shieldwall.
I do think whoever wrote the two links both have a point. If school kids have the common sense to hide themselves than pop out of nowhere to surround another kid they want to beat up, it puts stain to the notion Warrior cultures such as Celts (and to a lesser degree martial artists such as Shaolin monks) are too focused on "individual combat" that they can't work as a team.
If a bunch of modern-day construction workers can send a guy to pin you on the wall while the rest of the construction team are hitting you, what makes it impossible for say an 8th century knight to think of something as simple as bearhugging a Muslim warrior and calling for other knights to behead said ensnared Muslim warrior?