Combined Arms Warfare

Combined arms is an approach to warfare that seeks to integrate different combat arms of a military to achieve mutually complementary effects-for example, using infantry and armour in an urban environment in which each supports the other.

The phalanx would hold the opposing line in place, until the heavy cavalry could smash and break the enemy line by achieving local superiority.

Combined arms warfare is the doctrine of coordinating infantry, armored vehicles, artillery and air power as one synchronized system in which each arm compensates for the others' vulnerabilities, rather than committing them separately or sequentially.

Philip II of Macedon and Alexander the Great greatly improved upon the limited combined arms tactics of the Greek city-states and combined the newly created Macedonian phalanx with heavy cavalry and other forces.

German success depended upon a combination of existing traditions of mobile warfare with modern Panzer divisions, motorised infantry, artillery, engineers, reconnaissance, radio-enabled command and control, and cooperation with the Luftwaffe.