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Using literary, epigraphic, numismatic and iconographic sources this book investigates the safety devices that were in place for the protection of the emperor and the city of Rome in the imperial age. In the aftermath of the civil wars Augustus continued to provide for his physical safety in the same way as in the old Republic while, at the same time, overturning the taboo of armed men in the city. During the Augustan age, the division of the city into 14 regions and 265 vici was designed to establish control over the urban space. Augustus' successors consolidated his policy but the specific roles of the various military or paramilitary forces remain a matter for debate. Drawing on the testimony of ancient authors such as Tacitus and Suetonius and on material evidence, the volume examines both the circumstances in which these forces intervened and the strategies that they adopted. It also examines the pre-Augustan, Augustan and post-Augustan sense of `securitas', both as a philosophical and a political concept. The final section expands the focus from the city of Rome to the Italian peninsula where the security of the emperor as he travelled to his country residences required advance planning and implementation.

Rome --- Rome (Italy) --- History, Military --- History --- Rome - History, Military - 30 B.C.-476 A.D. --- Rome (Italy) - History - To 476

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This book offers an in-depth study on the deployment of military operations in the framework of the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy (ESDP/CSDP). While existing studies of the subject are either descriptive or focused on a single level of analysis, this book incorporates factors from three different levels of analysis to explain the deployment of ESDP military operations. First, the international level, where the emergence of events that threaten certain values held dear by EU member states, catalyses the process leading to an operation; second, the national level, where the member states formulate their initial national preferences towards a prospective deployment based on national utility expectations; and third, the EU level, where the member states come to negotiate and seek compromises to accommodate their different national preferences towards a deployment. The strength of this multi-level collective action approach is demonstrated by four in-depth military case studies, which analyse the preference formation of France, Germany, and the UK towards the deployments of Operation Althea in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Operation Artemis and EUFOR RD Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Operation Atalanta off the coast of Somalia, respectively. The author draws on a wealth of primary sources, including over 50 semi-structured interviews conducted with national and EU officials during 2011-15, and provides an up-to-date overview and critique of the existing theoretical literature on the deployment of ESDP/CSDP military operations. This book will be of much interest to students of European security, EU politics, military and strategic studies, and International Relations in general

EU--ESDP--OPERATIONS --- EU--CSDP--OPERATIONS --- Europe --- European Union countries --- History, Military --- Military policy --- Foreign relations --- Military policy. --- Foreign relations. --- Polemology --- European Union --- Europe - History, Military - 21st century --- European Union countries - Military policy --- European Union countries - Foreign relations

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In this collected volume fourteen experts in the fields of Classics and Ancient History study the textual strategies used by Herodotus and Livy when recounting the disastrous battles at Thermopylae and Cannae. Literary, linguistic and historical approaches are used (often in combination) in order to enhance and enrich the interpretation of the accounts, which for obvious reasons confronted the authors with a special challenge. Chapters drawing a comparison with other battle narratives and with other genres help to establish genre-specific elements in ancient historiography, and draw attention to the particular techniques employed by Herodotus and Livy in their war narratives.

E-books --- Cannae, Battle of, Italy, 216 B.C. --- Thermopylae, Battle of, Greece, 480 B.C. --- War in literature. --- Herodotus --- Herodotus. --- Livy --- Livy. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cannae, Battle of (Italy : 216 B.C.). --- Thermopylae, Battle of (Greece : 480 B.C.). --- 480-216 B.C. --- Greece --- Greece. --- Italy. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rome --- History, Military. --- War in literature --- Criticism and interpretation --- History, Military --- Livy - Criticism and interpretation --- Herodotus - Criticism and interpretation --- Greece - History, Military --- Rome - History, Military

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"En 1871, l'amère défaite face à l'alliance prussienne provoque dans l'armée française une remise en cause de la stratégique et des tactiques de combat : le corps à corps n'a vraiment plus sa place au sein de la guerre moderne. Pourtant, malgré les volontés réformatrices, la baïonnette et son escrime reviennent sur le devant de la scène, portées par un engouement civil et militaire. Ce retour en force de la baïonnette et du corps à corps trouve son apogée au début du XXe siècle et l'escrime à la baïonnette perdure alors même que la Première Guerre mondiale s'installe. Il faudra attendre l'armistice de 1918 et l'heure des leçons pour que soit définitivement écartée la chère 'Rosalie' du poilu et le fantasme du contact avec l'adversaire." [Source : 4e de couv.].

Escrime à la baïonnette --- Escrime --- Baïonnettes --- Histoire --- Fencing. --- Bayonets. --- Histoire. --- Bayonets --- Fencing --- History --- France --- History, Military --- Bayonets - France - History - 19th century --- Bayonets - France - History - 20th century --- Fencing - France - History - 19th century --- Fencing - France - History - 20th century --- France - History, Military - 19th century --- France - History, Military - 20th century

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This collection of essays on the Byzantine culture of war in the period between the 4th and the 12th centuries offers a new critical approach to the study of warfare as a fundamental aspect of East Roman society and culture in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The book’s main goal is to provide a critical overview of current research as well as new insights into the role of military organization as a distinct form of social power in one of history’s more long-lived empires. The various chapters consider the political, ideological, practical, institutional and organizational aspects of Byzantine warfare and place it at the centre of the study of social and cultural history. Contributors are Salvatore Cosentino, Michael Grünbart, Savvas Kyriakidis, Tilemachos Lounghis, Christos Makrypoulias, Stamatina McGrath, Philip Rance, Paul Stephenson, Yannis Stouraitis, Denis Sullivan, and Georgios Theotokis.

Military art and science --- War and civilization --- War and society --- Byzantine Empire --- History, Military. --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- Civilization and war --- Civilization --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- Social aspects --- History, Military --- Military art and science. --- Military art and science - Byzantine Empire --- War and civilization - Byzantine Empire --- War and society - Byzantine Empire --- Byzantine Empire - History, Military