Phalanx used in a sentence

Phalanx in a sentence as a noun

They showed up with "a phalanx of officers from the FBI, ATF and Boston".

And the phalanx was a crucial part of Philip II and Alexander's combined arms system and their maneuver warfare.

A Spartan boys life was devoted almost entirely to his school, and that school had but one purpose: to produce an almost indestructible Spartan phalanx.

In my admittedly ignorant opinion, he uses the terms "maneuver warfare" and "phalanx warfare" so broadly as to make them almost meaningless.

" It is only in hindsight and perhaps anachronistically that one classifies battleships as the phalanx rather than the mongol horde - or perhaps more appropriately Viking Longship.

[edit] All this to point out, that the distinction between maneuver and phalanx isn't always obvious and neither is the choice as a matter of tactics - when the enemy masses on your front, digging in and calling for aircover is may be the preferred alternative - even for highly mobile force.