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For other uses, see Fire power (disambiguation).

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. Defeat in detail is a military phrase referring to the tactic of bringing a large portion of one's own force to bear on small enemy units in sequence rather than engaging the bulk of the

The term Fire Power is also commonly used to describe the collective offensive capabilities of a military force.

History of fire power

The earliest forms of warfare that might be called fire power were the slingers of the Roman Legions, particularly those from the Balearic Islands, and archery of the Parthian horse archers. A sling is a projectile Weapon typically used to throw a blunt Projectile such as a stone For other uses see Legion The Roman Legion (from Latin legio "military levy Conscription," Eventually, the feared Huns would employ the composite bow and light cavalry tactics to shower arrow storms upon enemy forces, a strategy which also appeared in a less mobile form in Britain, with its famed Longbowmen, used during the various Anglo-French conflicts known as the Hundred Years' War during the Middle Ages. The Huns were an early confederation of Central Asian equestrian nomads or semi-nomads with a Turkic core of aristocracy A composite bow is a bow made from disparate materials laminated together usually applied under tension To see other senses of this word see Longbow (disambiguation. The Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne vacant with the extinction of the senior

Examples of fire power

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