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This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.

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Avec un retentissement exceptionnel pour un ouvrage écrit par quelqu’un qui n’était ni historien professionnel, ni spécialiste de l’Antiquité, le livre d’Edward Luttwak sur la grande stratégie de l’empire romain occupe une place à part dans l’historiographie depuis sa publication en 1976. À le relire on reste impressionné par l’ampleur des questions abordées, la concision, la clarté et l’audace de la synthèse, mais aussi par nombre d’observations. Au lendemain de la défaite du Vietnam,
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Table of Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Preface to the 2016 Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgment
Introduction
1. The Julio-Claudian System
The System in Outline
The Client States
The Management of the Clients
The Tactical Organization of the Army
The Strategic Deployment of Forces
Conclusion
2. From the Flavians to the Severi
The System in Outline
Border Defense
Border Defense
The Decline of the Client System
The Army and the System
Conclusion
3. Defense-in-Depth
The System in Outline
The Changing Threat
The New Borders of the Empire
Walled Towns and Hard-Point Defenses
Border Troops
Provincial Forces
Central Field Armies
Conclusion
Epilogue. The Three Systems
Appendix. Power and Force
Notes
Bibliography
Index

The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire

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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: 13/07/2016
      ISBN13: 9781421419459, 978-1421419459
      ISBN10: 1421419459

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.

      Trade Review
      Avec un retentissement exceptionnel pour un ouvrage écrit par quelqu’un qui n’était ni historien professionnel, ni spécialiste de l’Antiquité, le livre d’Edward Luttwak sur la grande stratégie de l’empire romain occupe une place à part dans l’historiographie depuis sa publication en 1976. À le relire on reste impressionné par l’ampleur des questions abordées, la concision, la clarté et l’audace de la synthèse, mais aussi par nombre d’observations. Au lendemain de la défaite du Vietnam,
      Revue des Etudes Anciennes

      Table of Contents

      List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
      Preface to the 2016 Edition
      Preface to the First Edition
      Acknowledgment
      Introduction
      1. The Julio-Claudian System
      The System in Outline
      The Client States
      The Management of the Clients
      The Tactical Organization of the Army
      The Strategic Deployment of Forces
      Conclusion
      2. From the Flavians to the Severi
      The System in Outline
      Border Defense
      Border Defense
      The Decline of the Client System
      The Army and the System
      Conclusion
      3. Defense-in-Depth
      The System in Outline
      The Changing Threat
      The New Borders of the Empire
      Walled Towns and Hard-Point Defenses
      Border Troops
      Provincial Forces
      Central Field Armies
      Conclusion
      Epilogue. The Three Systems
      Appendix. Power and Force
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index

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