Why soldier pawns are moved first on board

Hi,

I have this base question. Why in chess board the soldiers are infront of pawns like  king, minister, rook, bishap etc(except a horse pawn). Why cannot these important and powerful pawns take the lead first. What is the basic idea or war behind this or is this a kind of war strategy?

i was wanting to try to respond to this, but i'm very confused.

aren't the "soldiers" the pawns? what is the difference between minister and bishop (if no difference, what's a minister)? what is a horse pawn?

i'm assuming you're asking why are the pawns in front as opposed to the other pieces? well, you kind of answered that yourself. they are the 'weaker' pieces and therefore you send them out first before using your more heavy artillery.

in a land war (where strategy is very important, just like in chess), would you really send in your strongest fighters right off the bat? or would you try to use them more strategically? i'd go for the latter.

(that being said, there are army leaders in the past that used the "let's just run in there and kill the enemy as fast as possible" technique and it worked for them for the most part. napoleon comes to mind. his enemies used to try to strategically set up the battle like it was always done in the past, but he'd  just run in and start fighting and surprise them. granted, he also did that with russia and look how that ended.)