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To this topic, I would like to share a short text I found about Gondorian and Numenorean battle tactics (not canon):

These are organized to fight along ancient Elven methods where many ranks of Spearmen would protect many ranks of archers behind them, and the archers would fire straight through the spearmen. Obviously, men could not hope to duplicate this feat, which took both the second-sight of the eldar and their special brains (which allowed them to see and focus their attention upon many different objects at once, thus enabling them of safely standing in formed ranks while formed ranks of archers shot through the unit rather than over it). So, men learned to form units of Defensive Spearmen which had Archers who could either fire from the front of the unit and then fall behind the Spearmen, where they could fire over the spearmen into the rear ranks of the enemy. This formation was said to be typical of Númenóre.