hi! Horses are still trained for chaotic conditions (e.g. riot police), so it would be worth x-posting to a horse training sub, but meanwhile, there have been some interesting threads on horses trained for battle; check these out

• What was the training like for War horses during the Middle Ages? What special skills did they posses as opposed to to those of a regular horse?

• Agricultural or Husbandry Historians, if there's any around, a r/badhistory post got me thinking. How much has tack changed in the last thousand years? How about the use and training of horses?

• What made melee cavalry so effective in ancient times? Was there much variation in their usage before the advent of gunpowder?

• I've always read about war horses being "man-killers" and recently read about a 17th century war horse disembowling a groom. Were horses really that dangerous?

• Why were warhorses so powerful in battle during so may years?

• Why was cavalry so deadly?