05-28-2010, 11:06 AM
Quote:I'd be much duller and go for the filing cabinets of the Roman equivalent of the Ministry of Defence- org charts, reports from the front, requests for reinforcements, battle reports etc etc....Do we know they actually had these? I can easily imagine earlier versions of the Notitia Dignitatum, but why would sitreps rach the DoD? Such reports would go the commander in charge and then to the governor, but why all the way to Rome?
Heh, if only there had been a Roman equivalent to the Pentagon... :?
I think that the best we can hope for are some generals' memoirs of famous (or better: unknown) campaigns...
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)