{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Thinking about \u201chow little time you spend in ranged before closing to melee distance\u201d and \u201chow much momentum your lines impact...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187547561498/", "html": "<p>Thinking about \u201chow little time you spend in ranged before closing to melee distance\u201d and \u201chow much momentum your lines impact theirs with\u201d as distinct elements of an infantry charge correlated to victory in some mixed proportion that each keyed off the same variable.</p><p>And how much of the 19th century into WWI was a process of realizing this, obscured by the European powers mutually mixing ranged and melee with the gradually evolving long gun w/bayonet<br/></p>"}