Talk:skirmish

Is skirmish also used as a verb?

Verify the non contact military units

 * Greek Warfare, Myths and Realities, Hans van Wees p61
 * Greek Warfare, Myths and Realities, Hans van Wees p64p
 * Greek Warfare, Myths and Realities, Hans van Wees p65
 * Greek Warfare, Myths and Realities, Hans van Wees p65, Laws 706c
 * The Ancient Celts, Barry Cunliffe pp 94-95
 * Caesar, De Bello Gallico, Book 7, XLI
 * Peter Green, Alexander to Actium, p 133
 * Hannibal's Last Battle: Zama and the Fall of Carthage, Brian Todd Carey p12 (Carthage) and p18 (Rome)
 * History of the Art of War, Vol IV Hans Delbrück p449-51
 * Randolph, Lewis Hamersly, Biographical Sketches of Distinguished Officers of the Army and Navy, Henry E. Huntington Library: New York, 1905 (pp.82-88)

skirmish

 * Rfv-sense: English: Noun #3: In warfare, a tactic of attacking with missile weapons without making contact.
 * Seems to me to be just more specific version of sense 1. Unless some reference or examples can be shown where the more generic meaning is excluded, it out to be deleted or merged into sense 1. — Carolina wren discussió  17:02, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

It's only applied to early warfare. Missiles? I don't think that user meant Tomahawks or SCUDs. Besides that, the definition is a bit strange (no contact = not melee or not the intention of hand to hand). --User:Mallerd (Zeg et es meisje) 12:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)


 * RFV failed, sense removed: no one has added any quotations, and the various comments haven't been enough for me to figure out what exactly this means so I can write a usable definition. Anyone who can define this well and provide quotations, please do so! —Ruakh TALK 07:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)