The Military Institutions of the Romans eBook Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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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.

The Military Institutions of the Romans eBook Flavius Vegetius Renatus

This is a short but indispensable book for anyone interested in military history. Although the subject matter is the Roman Army's organization and tactics in perhaps the II Century, the book survived the fall of the Roman Empire and was influential through the Middle Ages, and even beyond.
Scholars in more recent times have questioned the organizational details of the Roman legions described by the author, but the differences are not very great and the legions themselves evolved slowly through the centuries. Vegetus does however give a clear description of the artillery of each legion, as well as of its bridging train. The size and deployment of each legion's cavalry has also been questioned.

This book was written for the ruling Emperor hundreds of years after the legions were broken up into independent battalions and in the wake of a string of military defeats. Its aim was to convince the Emperor of the need to reorganize the Empire's military along the lines of the early Empire, while pointing out the deficiencies of the then current forces (.e.g lack of training, fitness, shortage of good infantry). There are also chapters on tactics and a collection tactical and strategic maxims, some of which survived to out day (.e.g. "vincit pace, para bellum"). This version of Vegetus work is a XIX Century translation; there are probably others. I have not seen the Latin version of this book, but the translation is certainly clear and reads well. I gave it four stars only because it is likely to be of interest only to specialists; on a list for military historians, it would rate five stars and it is required reading.

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File Size 506 KB
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Publisher Enhanced Media Publishing (January 27, 2017)
Publication Date January 27, 2017
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Language English
ASIN B01N9WD2LI

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