The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third (Johns Hopkins Paperbacks) | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward N. Luttwak
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Pages: 272
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ISBN: 0801821584
Dewey Decimal Number: 355.033037
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Publication Date: January 1, 1979
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'A fascinating book, well written and forcefully argued...Luttwak's formulations are as refreshing as they are convincing... He has done for Roman historians what they have not done for themselves.' --Z. Yavetz, New Republic
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 an excellent overview of roman grand strategy July 1, 2008
Dr. Andrew Grimsdale (Singapore)
This book is justly regarded as a classic survey of the strategic policy of the Roman Empire from its heyday through to its fall. The writing is not weighed down with jargon and the diagrams illustrate the points made in the text rather well, making it easy to follow. While some areas of detail may now have been revised in light of new archaeological discoveries the basic premises of the book remain unchallenged. Anyone seriously interested in the history of the Roman Empire should read this. The only weakness for a reader is that some prior knowledge of the Roman history is needed to understand all the points, but for anyone with a basic knowledge of the history of the Roman Empire this book will do a lot to help understand what was happening and why.
A very thorough over view of Roman Militarism May 31, 2008
James A. Lawson
I enjoyed this book a great deal and found it to be a definite must have for any Roman history (particularly Roman warfare) afficianado. Contains a wealth of insight from how defenses were established, built, and used as well as the effectiveness of them, to the different armies (legions) grand strategic intent.
 Should be called 'The General Operation of the Roman Army' April 30, 2008
Ravanagh Allan (Melbourne, Australia)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Anyone looking for whether or not there were, for example, imperial designs for a Black Sea-to-Baltic Sea frontier won't find it here. (I think Cary--Scullard mooted that (without answering it) (but perhaps Grant did)). br / br /This book deals solely with how the military worked, but that IS sometimes shown in the light of the exigencies of empire, I s'pose.
Pellucid analysis, and perhaps relevant to our own time? April 17, 2007
Milo Jones (Italy US)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Luttwak's book is not only a marvelous addition to any library concerning strategy or Rome, but it may also be, in Barbara Tuchman's phrase, "A Distant Mirror". Speaking of the last phase of the Roman Empire (i.e. the late third and fourth century CE), Luttwak says "The machinery of empire now became increasingly self-serving, with its tax-collectors, administrators, and soldiers of much greater use to one another than to society at large...." br /
Great explanation how a world empire defended its citizens May 27, 2005
Juan Alberto Diaz Wiechers (Santiago Chile)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
I do not agree that this book is only for specialists. I am of the opinion that it is a book for history lovers. And, moreover, it is for any person who wishes to understand how a highly developed society managed to defend its way of living. It most valuable because it depicts the success of the Roman system in the first two centuries of our era. The Third Century depicts the problem of a World power which has began its decline. br /Reading the book you understand the Roman system, and you learn how a society must be prepared for selfdefense, and even for attack, if it wants to survive. br /If you translate this book into the idiom of the early XXIst Century, you realize how our declining Western Civilization must behave in order to protect itself, and its inhabitants, from its external -and even internal- threats.
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