Defending Rome The Masters Of The Soldiers

Author : Julian Reynolds
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 147716460X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defending Rome: The Masters of the Soldiers written by Julian Reynolds and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For its last eighty years, the Western Roman Empire was ruled by emperors who were unable to provide the leadership demanded by the crisis the Empire faced throughout this period. Power was exercised instead by the commanders of the Western armies, the magisteri militum or Masters of the Soldiers, four of whom stood out – Stilicho, Constantius, Aetius and Ricimer. Challenged by barbarian invasions, constantly diminishing resources, and indifference and sometimes hostility from the imperial court, the Senate and the Roman people, these men prolonged the existence of the Empire in the West beyond what would otherwise have been its natural span. This book tells the story of the collapse of the Western Empire, as seen through the lives of these individuals, a collapse that ended more than political and military structures, that encompassed the end of an ancient pagan culture and the inception of the age of Christianity.

Author : Edward Luttwak
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419459
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire written by Edward Luttwak and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A newly updated edition of this classic, hugely influential account of how the Romans defended their vast empire. At the height of its power, the Roman Empire encompassed the entire Mediterranean basin, extending much beyond it from Britain to Mesopotamia, from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Rome prospered for centuries while successfully resisting attack, fending off everything from overnight robbery raids to full-scale invasion attempts by entire nations on the move. How were troops able to defend the Empire’s vast territories from constant attacks? And how did they do so at such moderate cost that their treasury could pay for an immensity of highways, aqueducts, amphitheaters, city baths, and magnificent temples? In The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, seasoned defense analyst Edward N. Luttwak reveals how the Romans were able to combine military strength, diplomacy, and fortifications to effectively respond to changing threats. Rome’s secret was not ceaseless fighting, but comprehensive strategies that unified force, diplomacy, and an immense infrastructure of roads, forts, walls, and barriers. Initially relying on client states to buffer attacks, Rome moved to a permanent frontier defense around 117 CE. Finally, as barbarians began to penetrate the empire, Rome filed large armies in a strategy of “defense-in-depth,” allowing invaders to pierce Rome’s borders. This updated edition has been extensively revised to incorporate recent scholarship and archeological findings. A new preface explores Roman imperial statecraft. This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.

Author : Christopher J. Fuhrmann
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199737843
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Policing the Roman Empire written by Christopher J. Fuhrmann and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide variety of source material from art archaeology, administrative documents, Egyptian papyri, laws Jewish and Christian religious texts and ancient narratives this book provides a comprehensive overview of Roman imperial policing practices.

Author : Julian Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781664106819
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1453 a Tale of Two Battles written by Julian Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the author's second published by Xlibris, the first being Defending Rome: The Masters of the Soldiers, published in 2011. It explores the consequences of two battles fought in 1453 - the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in May and the French victory over the English two months later at Castillon in the last battle of the Hundred Years War. The book considers the impact of these events on a diverse range of topics, including military outcomes, strategic consequences, economic developments, and cultural and religious implications. It concludes by assessing the significance of these two battles in influencing the transition of Europe from the medieval to the modern age.

Author : Flavius Vegetius Renatus
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1365714292
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Institutions of the Romans written by Flavius Vegetius Renatus and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Military Institutions of the Romans (De Re Militari - "Concerning Military Matters") is a treatise by the late Latin writer Flavius Renatus about Roman warfare and military principles as a presentation of methods and practices in use during the height of Rome's power. Renatus emphasized things such as training of soldiers as a disciplined force, orderly strategy, maintenance of supply lines and logistics, quality leadership and use of tactics and even deceit to ensure advantage over the opposition.

Author : Vegetius
Publisher : Tales End Press
ISBN 13 : 1623580439
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Institutions of the Romans written by Vegetius and published by Tales End Press. This book was released on 2012-08-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also known as “De Re Militari” (On Military Matters), this is the only handbook of Roman warfare to survive to modern times. Written when the power of the Roman empire was already waning, it was intended to educate a new emperor on the capabilities of the Roman legions. Vegetius touches on all military matters, including the selection and training of recruits, the importance of logistics and supply, how to develop leadership qualities, the maintenance of army discipline, the use of arms and armor, and various battlefield tactics. It is also the source of many military and political maxims still used to this day, including “He who aspires to peace should prepare for war,” and “Few men are born brave; many become so through training and force of discipline.” Copied and recopied countless times, it was required military reading until the advent of gunpowder, and has been carried into battle by kings and generals.

Author : David Levering Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393064728
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Crucible written by David Levering Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this panoramic history of Islamic culture in early Europe, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian reexamines the fall of the Persian and Roman empires, followed by the rise of the prophet Muhammad and the creation of Muslim Spain. color illustrations.

Author : Antonio Santosuosso
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429976739
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Storming The Heavens written by Antonio Santosuosso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the closing years of the second century B.C., the ancient world watched as the Roman armies maintained clear superiority over all they surveyed. But, social turmoil prevailed at the heart of her territories, led by an increasing number of dispossessed farmers, too little manpower for the army, and an inevitable conflict with the allies who had fought side by side with the Romans to establish Roman dominion. Storming the Heavens looks at this dramatic history from a variety of angles. What changed most radically, Santosuosso argues, was the behavior of soldiers in the Roman armies. The troops became the enemies within, their pillage and slaughter of fellow citizens indiscriminate, their loyalty not to the Republic but to their leaders, as long as they were ample providers of booty. By opening the military ranks to all, the new army abandoned its role as depository of the values of the upper classes and the propertied. Instead, it became an institution of the poor and drain on the power of the Empire. Santosuosso also investigates other topics, such as the monopoly of military power in the hands of a few, the connection between the armed forces and the cherished values of the state, the manipulation of the lower classes so that they would accept the view of life, control, and power dictated by the oligarchy, and the subjugation and dehumanization of subject peoples, whether they be Gauls, Britons, Germans, Africans, or even the Romans themselves.

Author : Guy de La Bédoyère
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 9780349143910
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gladius written by Guy de La Bédoyère and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vegetius
Publisher : Martino Fine Books
ISBN 13 : 9781614270553
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Military Institutions of the Romans written by Vegetius and published by Martino Fine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2011 Reprint of 1940 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in "Roots of Strategy," by the Military Service Publishing Company, 1940. The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius' treatise was for long an essential part of the medieval prince's military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a highly-trained professional standing army and navy, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains the foundation of modern Western defense policy. The work was written just before the fall of the Roman Empire in the West, at a time when economic weakness and political disintegration threatened to undermine the strategic defensive structure that had underpinned the Roman State for so long. The main thrust of his reforms was to confront the problems of the fragmentation of the army, the barbarization of its personnel, the loss of professional skills, and the substitution of mercenaries for standing forces. The accent of the work is on the practicalities of recruiting and training new model armies (and navies) starting from scratch, and on the strategies appropriate to their use against the barbarian invaders of the period.