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Subtitle: from the Persian Wars to the Fall
of Rome, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 2010, 265 pgs., index, notes,
bibliography, paperback
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Reviewer's Comments: This is an excellent
survey of some examples of strategic ideas and some of the most famous
practicioners. It includes individuals and also categories such as
fortifications, urban warfare, and counter insurgency. Each chapter is written
by a specialist in the subject
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Introduction - Makers of Ancient Strategy:
from the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome, Victor D. Hanson
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Chapter 1- From Persia with Love: Propaganda
and Imperial Overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars, Tom Holland
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Chapter 2 - Pericles, Thucydides, and the
defense of Empire, Donald Kagan
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Chapter 3 - Why Fortifications Endure: A
Case Study of Walls of Athens during the Classical Period, David Berkey
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Chapter 4 - Epaminondas the Theban and the
Doctrine of Preemptive War, Victor Hanson
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Chapter 5 - Alexander the Great, Nation
Building, and the Creation of Mainenance of Empire, Ian Worthington
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Chapter 6 - Urban Warfare in the Classical
Greek World, John W. Lee
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Chapter 7 - Counterinsurgency and the Enemies
of Rome, Susan Mattern
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Chapter 8 - Slave Wars of Greece and Rome,
Barry Strauss
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Chapter 9 - Julius Caesar and the General as
State, Andrian Goldsworthy
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Chapter 10 - Holding the Line: Frontier
Defense and the Later Roman Empire, Peter Heather
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