Not sure if you’d ever see a whole bunch of arrows. In a space the size of a battlefield, with 1 arrow per 10s per archer, you’d need a lot of them to have several in flight in your general direction at once.

Some might call this intelligence.

It is brave to hold against what one might call intelligence if doing so conforms to the zeitgeist and stupid when it runs counter to it.

Bret, the author of ACOUP, goes in to a lot more detail here:

https://acoup.blog/2021/01/29/collections-the-universal-warr...

Many actions that are individually intelligent can be collectively disastrous.

War is a racket. Smedley Butlers word have aged like fine wine.

Generally true. Unfortunately, "don't cooperate with racketeers" is not always a viable strategy.