The Father of Strategy

...they also found that organizing and coordinating the actions of fighters greatly magnified their effect.

To begin at the beginning, armies, together with the authority structures supporting them, first arose in the Bronze Age in parallel with complex urban societies.

Just as humans discovered that organized agriculture paid great dividends, they also found that organizing and coordinating the actions of fighters greatly magnified their effect.  Properly organized and led, ordinary men could defeat skilled warriors who fought as individuals or as small bands.

ACTION POINT: Organize and lead ordinary men and women properly to defeat skilled opponents.