Talk:Anglo-Saxon military organization
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Confused and imprecise article
I have a number of problems with the article as it stands.
Firstly, "strategy and tactics" are not part of "military organisation" and should have a separate entry. Secondly, the article perpetuates the myth that the Anglo-Saxons were a backward people compared to those of the Continent. In fact Anglo-Saxon England was a more sophisticated society than any other in Europe, with the exception of Byzantium and the Muslims of Spain. One illustation of this is in the monetary economy, Anglo-Saxon England had a standardised denomination, the silver penny, which was minted and recalled to be reminted at regular intervals, only Byzantium had a more closely regularised monetary system. This sophistication also extended to the miltary sphere, with their huscarles and butsecarles (marines) the Late Anglo-Saxon kings had a core of fully professional soldiery completely unknown to contemporary rulers in the rest of Western Europe.Urselius (talk) 11:39, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
Repeated vandalism
This article has been tagged since September of '08 and it is still garbage, did we decide the potential information this article could hold is not worth a damn?
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