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Strategy of Empire dispels the myth that Romans were incapable of longterm strategic thinking or maintaining any enunciated strategy for more than a brief period, acting as a welcome counternarrative to Edward Luttwak's
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third.
List of contents
- Introduction: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
- Part I Themes and Topics
- 1: Could the Romans Do Strategy?
- 2: How Dangerous Were the Barbarians?
- 3: Paying for a Strategy: Funding the Republic
- 4: The Core of Roman Strategy
- 5: The Infrastructure of Empire
- 6: An Army for Empire
- 7: Roman Naval Power
- Part II Rome's Strategic History: From the Principate to the Crisis of the Third Century
- 8: The Julio-Claudian Empire
- 9: The Year of the Four Empires and the Flavians
- 10: The Empire at High Table
- 11: The Severan Interlude
- 12: New Threats
- 13: The Crisis of the Third Century
- Part III The Late Empire: New Beginnings and an End
- 14: Diocletian, Constantine, and a New Empire
- 15: The Late Imperial Army and Strategy
- 16: Four Battles and a Divorce
- 17: The Gothic Challenge
- 18: Adrianople's Aftermath
- 19: Denouement
- Conclusion
- Notes
- For Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
- Index
About the author
James Lacey holds the Horner Chair of War Studies and is Professor of Strategic Studies and Political Economy at Marine Corps War College. His previous books include, as author,
The Washington War: FDR's Inner Circle and the Politics of Power that Won World War II and
The First Clash: The Miraculous Greek Victory at Marathon and Its Impact on Western Civilization; as co-author with Williamson Murray,
Gods of War: History's Greatest Military Rivals and
Moment of Battle: The Twenty Clashes that Changed the World; and, as editor,
Great Strategic Rivalries: From the Classical World to the Cold War.
