Strategy: Tactics, Tactics and Generals in the Byzantine Era
About This Novel
"Strategy" was written around AD 579. It was a military manual issued by Maurice, then the military chief of the Roman Empire, to implement military reforms. The book consists of twelve chapters. The first eleven chapters mainly cover the personnel, equipment, organization, formation, training and combat methods of the cavalry unit. The twelfth chapter added later mainly discusses the relevant content of the infantry unit. As an introductory manual to the art of war for budding generals, Strategy fully reflects the changes that took place in the Roman army between the crises of the 3rd century and the 6th century. The book mainly focuses on the cavalry, which had already become the main force of the army at this time. It advocates using the method of defeating the enemy without fighting as much as possible to confront the enemy and save as much as possible the resources of the empire, which has been plunged into a new round of crisis. The cavalry formations and tactics described in the book were a continuation of the Roman Empire and became the standard tactics of the Roman army during the Byzantine period. For later generations of researchers, "Strategy" is also a way to understand the appearance of the Roman army from the late 6th century to the early 7th century.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)
