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    The strategy of the Roman military contains its grand strategy (the arrangements made by the state to implement its political goals through a selection...
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  • The structural history of the Roman military concerns the major transformations in the organization and constitution of ancient Rome's armed forces, "the...
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  • Military strategy is a set of ideas implemented by military organizations to pursue desired strategic goals. Derived from the Greek word strategos, the...
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  • illustrate Roman methods with links to detailed articles on individual encounters. The original Roman army was made up of hoplites, whose main strategy was forming...
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  • The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of...
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  • institution in the Roman world. According to the Roman historian Livy, the military was a key element in the rise of Rome over "above seven hundred years" from...
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  • strategy or high strategy is a state's strategy of how means (military and nonmilitary) can be used to advance and achieve national interests in the long-term...
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    influential battle strategies. The early Roman army was based on a compulsory levy from adult male citizens which was held at the start of each campaigning...
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  • force, in a dialectic of wills" in a military conflict, in which both adversaries interact. Strategy is important because the resources available to...
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  • The palatini (Latin for "palace troops") were elite units of the Late Roman army mostly attached to the comitatus praesentales,[citation needed] or imperial...
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    establishment of the Roman Republic Political history of the Roman military Strategy of the Roman military Structural history of the Roman military Technological...
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  • is the term used by American political analyst Edward Luttwak (born 1942) to describe his theory of the defensive strategy employed by the Late Roman army...
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  • core of the campaign history of the Roman military is an aggregate of different accounts of the Roman military's land battles, from its initial defense...
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    called the res militaris or disciplina. Its regular practice during the Roman Republic and Roman Empire led to military excellence and victory. The equipment...
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  • A military campaign is large-scale long-duration significant military strategy plan incorporating a series of interrelated military operations or battles...
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  • the Roman military The branches of the Roman military at the highest level were the Roman army and the Roman navy. Within these branches the actual structure...
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    Roman military borders and fortifications were part of a grand strategy of territorial defense in the Roman Empire, although this is a matter of debate...
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    Octavian overarching military power (imperium) and the new title of Augustus, marking his accession as the first Roman emperor. The vast Roman territories were...
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  • Roman military engineering was of a scale and frequency far beyond that of its contemporaries. Indeed, military engineering was in many ways endemic in...
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    above military goals, ensuring civilian control of the military. Military strategy was one of a triumvirate of 'arts' or 'sciences' that governed the conduct...
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    is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th...
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  • the foedus. Strategy was determined by the Roman Senate alone, joint forces were always levied and command of joint forces was to be always in Roman hands...
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  • The technology history of the Roman military covers the development of and application of technologies for use in the armies and navies of Rome from the...
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  • A Roman military diploma was a document inscribed in bronze certifying that the holder was honourably discharged from the Roman armed forces and/or had...
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    Roman military went to great lengths both to protect a standard and to recover one had it been lost; after the annihilation of three legions in the Teutoburg...
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    was formalized as the Seven Military Classics by Emperor Shenzong of Song in 1080. The Art of War remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian...
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    tactical feats in military history and one of the worst defeats in Roman history, and it cemented Hannibal's reputation as one of antiquity's greatest...
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  • The Roman legion (Latin: legiō, Latin: [ˈɫɛɡioː]), the largest military unit of the Roman army, was composed of Roman citizens serving as legionaries...
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    Primus pilus (category Military ranks of ancient Rome)
    needed] Radin 1915, p. 301. "Structure of the Legion | Strategy & Tactics | the Roman Military". Archived from the original on June 30, 2023. Campbell,...
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  • military forces the Roman military adopted an extensive list of decorations for military gallantry and likewise a range of punishments for military transgressions...
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