Rome : strategy of empire / James Lacey.

Rome: Strategy of Empire is the first book in nearly five decades to explore Roman strategic thinking and execution. Combining both thematic chapters with a narrative history of the Roman Empire, this work explores how the Empire survived for over five hundred years despite being challenged by ruthl...

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Main Author: Lacey, Jim, 1958- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction. Standing on the shoulders of giants -- Could the Romans do strategy? -- How dangerous were the barbarians? -- Paying for a strategy -- The core of Roman strategy -- The infrastructure of empire -- An army for empire -- Roman naval power -- The Julio-Claudia empire -- The year of the four emperors and the Flavians -- The empire at high tide -- The Severan interlude -- New threats -- The third century crisis -- Diocletain, Constantine and a new empire -- The late imperial army and strategy -- Four battles and a divorce -- The gothic challenge -- The aftermath of Adrianople -- Denouement. 
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520 3 |a Rome: Strategy of Empire is the first book in nearly five decades to explore Roman strategic thinking and execution. Combining both thematic chapters with a narrative history of the Roman Empire, this work explores how the Empire survived for over five hundred years despite being challenged by ruthless and determined enemies on every front. Rome: Strategy of Empire dispels many of the myths and errors that have crept up in Roman studies since the 1970s, including the most widespread and pernicious of them all: that the Romans were incapable of executing on a strategic level or even of thinking in strategic terms. The Roman Empire was a military autocracy built and maintained on the backs of the legions and this work explores Rome's military power and its use in detail. In addition, it explains how Rome sustained its power through diplomacy, superior administration, and most crucially, never (until the end of the Empire) losing sight of the crucial role economics plays as a foundation for military power. Rome: Strategy of Empire not only tells the reader what happened; it explains why it happened. 
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