Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

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by Victor Davis Hanson


  480 BC, 59–60; fortification building and,

  tization and, 5–6; counterinsurgency and,

  58–64, 70, 75, 81n16; Hippodamus and, 64;

  178–79; diplomacy and, 215; fortifications

  naval power and, 58–60, 63–65; Pentekon-

  and, 76–77; Freedom Tower and, 80n13;

  taetia and, 61–62

  Ground Zero memorial and, 61; Iraq War

  Theramenes, 67

  and, 109–12, 140; Mexican border and, 5;

  Thermopylae, battle of, 27–28

  political structure of, 207; preemption and,

  Thespiae, 60, 96

  5–6, 102, 110–12; security zones and, 76–77;

  Thessalus, 130

  unilateralism and, 5–6; urban fighting and,

  Thessaly, 186–88

  138–57

  thetes, 64

  urban fighting, 7; Aeneas on, 154–55; agora

  Third Messenian War, 188

  and, 144–51; agriculture and, 143; assassina-

  Third Punic War, 109

  tions and, 141; battle formation and, 150;

  Third World, 208

  circuit wall and, 151–52; classical military

  Thirty Tyrants, 67, 139, 151

  thought and, 151–55; combatants in,

  Thracians, 172, 190, 195, 199

  149–51; communications and, 153; Cyrus

  264 Index

  and, 139; defensible locations and, 145–46;

  Visigoths, 239–40

  direct assault and, 141; discipline and, 148;

  Vistula, 235

  Epaminondas and, 153–54; factionalism

  voting: Delian League and, 32–33; fortifications

  and, 156; Fallujah and, 140; foreign oc-

  and, 85n41, 87n47; Julius Caesar and, 209,

  cupiers and, 142; fortifications and, 143–52;

  211, 213, 220, 223; synods and, 32–33

  gang warfare and, 141; gender issues and,

  156; holding the acropolis and, 144; hop-

  wars: aggressive vs. defensive, 100–103; civil,

  lites and, 149–51; house-to-house, 147–49;

  3, 131, 139, 142, 145–46, 150, 163, 165–66, 170,

  intelligence needs and, 156; Iraq War and,

  174, 176, 191, 198, 200, 206–10, 213, 216–17,

  140; lessons from, 155–57; light infantry

  221–24; consolidation challenges and, 6;

  and, 151; mercenaries and, 157; modern,

  fourth generation, 2; gang, 141; Greco-

  140, 155–57; new technology for, 155; Pelo-

  Persian, 20–28; guerrilla tactics and, 121,

  ponnesian Wars and, 138–42; phalanx and,

  124, 169–70, 196; human nature and, 3, 39,

  150; Plataea and, 138–41, 144, 146; polis

  48; importance of historical perspective

  environment and, 143–49; propaganda

  on, 2–10; insurrections and, 7–8, 10, 126,

  and, 140; public buildings and, 145–46;

  142, 189, 192, 200–201; intelligence gather-

  riots and, 141; roof tiles and, 147, 155–56;

  ing and, 7, 24, 53, 156, 232; King’s Peace

  sectarianism and, 156; siege engineering

  and, 70–73, 86n43, 88n56, 89nn59,63; naval

  and, 141; sling bullets and, 141, 148; stasis

  power and, 51–53 ( see also naval power);

  (civil strife) and, 141–42; street layouts and,

  occupational challenges and, 6, 9; politics

  146–49, 155; surveillance and, 157; technol-

  and, 209–11; preemption and, 94–112;

  ogy and, 156; terrain and, 140; terrorism

  revolts and, 7–8, 12, 23–24, 33–35, 82n22,

  and, 7; Thebans and, 141, 144; Thirty Ty-

  119, 122–26, 134, 142, 165–73, 182n31, 185–88,

  rants and, 139; three- dimensional nature

  200–202; sectarianism and, 156; slave,

  of, 147; Thucydides on, 139; topographical

  185–202; strategy and, 2 ( see also strategy);

  issues and, 141, 149, 156; treachery and,

  tearless battle and, 105; urban fighting and,

  141; trenches and, 146; types of, 141–43;

  7, 138–57; Western heritage of, 3; world

  weapons and, 149–51; weather and, 153;

  opinion and, 157

  world opinion and, 157

  Washington, George, 207

  U.S. Congress, 102

  weapons, 149–51, 179, 191, 195–96

  utopia, 192

  world opinion, 157

  Uxellodunum, 216

  World War II era, 208

  Worthington, Ian, ix–x, 6, 118–37

  Valens, 228, 230

  Valentinian, 228, 230

  Xenophon, 3, 67–69, 71, 99, 106, 139

  Vandals, 239

  Xerxes, 2, 26–28, 37, 59, 100, 120, 132

  Varro, 190

  Veneti, 212

  Yahweh, 15

  Vercingetorix, 165, 216

  Yauna, 16, 23–24

  Verres, Gaius, 176–77, 199–200

  Vesontio, 218

  zealots, 112, 117n28

  Vespasian, 165, 173

  Zenobia, 166

  Vindex, 166

  Zizais, 231, 237

  Index 265

  Document Outline

  Title

  Copyright

  Contents

  List of Contributors

  Introduction: Makers of Ancient Strategy: From the Persian Wars to the Fall of Rome

  1. From Persia with Love: Propaganda and Imperial Overreach in the Greco-Persian Wars

  2. Pericles, Thucydides, and the Defense of Empire

  3. Why Fortifications Endure: A Case Study of the Walls of Athens during the Classical Period

  4. Epaminondas the Theban and the Doctrine of Preemptive War

  5. Alexander the Great, Nation Building, and the Creation and Maintenance of Empire

  6. Urban Warfare in the Classical Greek World

  7. Counterinsurgency and the Enemies of Rome

  8. Slave Wars of Greece and Rome

  9. Julius Caesar and the General as State

  10. Holding the Line: Frontier Defense and the Later Roman Empire

  Acknowledgments

  Index A

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  C

  D

  E

  F

  G

  H

  I

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  K

  L

  M

  N

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