Hi. I'm a military historian and published author of books and articles on military history from antiquity to the present. My specialty is Near Eastern Bronze Age military history. My area of principle interest is the relationship between technology and tactics/doctrine.
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In the Near Eastern Late Bronze Age the Egyptians employed a two-man chariot with the axle placed at the rear of the vehicle; whereas the Hittites employed a three-man chariot with the axle placed in the center of the vehicle. As a result, the weight of the two-man crew in the Egyptian...