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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. If you gather together a distinguished group of historians and have them produce articles stretching from the Persians to Late Antiquity Rome you would have something similar to what was produced here. This is a first-rate reflection on ancient strategy encompassing the vast range of issues and concerns in the classical Greek and Roman worlds. The contributors do not attempt to exhaustively document the lengthy period under discussion, which is a good thing, but they comprehensively consider the weighty moments of illustrative points of Greek and Roman strategy. Also helpfully, they reflect on contemporary applications for today, including the issues of insurgency, guerrilla warfare, and nation building, none of these concerns though detract but rather add to the intriguing insights they engender. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans developed an overarching and long-lasting strategy in their conflicts thus it is up to the historians rather to reconstruct the more immediate and relevant concerns to the principals involved. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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In this prequel to the now-classic Makers of Modern Strategy, Victor Davis Hanson, a leading scholar of ancient military history, gathers prominent thinkers to explore key facets of warfare, strategy, and foreign policy in the Greco-Roman world. From the Persian Wars to the final defense of the Roman Empire, Makers of Ancient Strategy demonstrates that the military thinking and policies of the ancient Greeks and Romans remain surprisingly relevant for understanding conflict in the modern world. The book reveals that much of the organized violence witnessed today--such as counterterrorism, urban fighting, insurgencies, preemptive war, and ethnic cleansing--has ample precedent in the classical era. The book examines the preemption and unilateralism used to instill democracy during Epaminondas's great invasion of the Peloponnesus in 369 BC, as well as the counterinsurgency and terrorism that characterized Rome's battles with insurgents such as Spartacus, Mithridates, and the Cilician pirates. The collection looks at the urban warfare that became increasingly common as more battles were fought within city walls, and follows the careful tactical strategies of statesmen as diverse as Pericles, Demosthenes, Alexander, Pyrrhus, Caesar, and Augustus. Makers of Ancient Strategy shows how Greco-Roman history sheds light on wars of every age. In addition to the editor, the contributors are David L. Berkey, Adrian Goldsworthy, Peter J. Heather, Tom Holland, Donald Kagan, John W. I. Lee, Susan Mattern, Barry Strauss, and Ian Worthington. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I thought most essays were excellent, providing a nice balance between necessary background information and analysis.
This type of book is a nice addition to the typical standard historical work which focuses on a particular campaign or leader. ( )