I'll leave this here. This was recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus (c. 37-95) describing the superiority of the Roman military machine during the period it was most effective, after the Marian Reforms and before the diluting effect that employing ever more barbarian axillaries had on discipline and tactics:
I'll leave this here. This was recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus (c. 37-95) describing the superiority of the Roman military machine during the period it was most effective, after the Marian Reforms and before the diluting effect that employing ever more barbarian axillaries had on discipline and tactics:
"On the contrary, as though they had been born with weapons in hand, they never have a truce from training, never wait for emergencies to arise. Moreover, their peace maneuvers are no less strenuous than veritable warfare; each soldier daily throws all his energy into his drill, as though he were in action. Hence that perfect ease with which they sustain the shock of battle: no confusion breaks their customary formation, no panic paralyzes, no fatigue exhausts them; and as their opponents cannot match these qualities, victory is the invariable and certain consequence. Indeed, it would not be wrong to describe their maneuvers as bloodless combats and combats as sanguinary maneuvers."
I'll leave this here. This was recorded by the Jewish historian Josephus (c. 37-95) describing the superiority of the Roman military machine during the period it was most effective, after the Marian Reforms and before the diluting effect that employing ever more barbarian axillaries had on discipline and tactics:
"On the contrary, as though they had been born with weapons in hand, they never have a truce from training, never wait for emergencies to arise. Moreover, their peace maneuvers are no less strenuous than veritable warfare; each soldier daily throws all his energy into his drill, as though he were in action. Hence that perfect ease with which they sustain the shock of battle: no confusion breaks their customary formation, no panic paralyzes, no fatigue exhausts them; and as their opponents cannot match these qualities, victory is the invariable and certain consequence. Indeed, it would not be wrong to describe their maneuvers as bloodless combats and combats as sanguinary maneuvers."
We used to have a military like that.