Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War - Steele Brand Audiobook
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“For who is so worthless or indolent as not to wish to know by what means and under what system of polity the Romans… succeeded in subjecting nearly the whole inhabited world to their sole government–a thing unique in history?”–Polybius
The year 146 BC marked the brutal end to the Roman Republic’s 118-year struggle for the western Mediterranean. Breaching the walls of their great enemy, Carthage, Roman troops slaughtered countless citizens, enslaved those who survived, and leveled the 700-year-old city. That same year in the east, Rome destroyed Corinth and subdued Greece. Over little more than a century, Rome’s triumphant armies of citizen-soldiers had shocked the world by conquering all of its neighbors.
How did armies made up of citizen-soldiers manage to pull off such a major triumph? And what made the republic so powerful? In Killing for the Republic, Steele Brand explains how Rome transformed average farmers into ambitious killers capable of conquering the entire Mediterranean. Rome instilled something violent and vicious in its soldiers, making them more effective than other empire builders. Unlike the Assyrians, Persians, or Macedonians, it fought with part-timers. Examining the relationship between the republican spirit and the citizen-soldier, Brand argues that Roman republican values and institutions prepared common men for the rigors and horrors of war.
Brand reconstructs five separate battles–representative moments in Rome’s constitutional and cultural evolution that saw its citizen-soldiers encounter the best warriors of the day, from marauding Gauls and the Alps-crossing Hannibal to the heirs of Alexander the Great. A sweeping political and cultural history, Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4.8/5
June 4th, 2021
Everything I ever did I did for the Senātus Populusque Rōmānus.
June 5th, 2021
SPQR, Sì, grazie!
June 5th, 2021
“Killing for the Republic closes with a compelling argument in favor of resurrecting the citizen-soldier ideal in modern America.”
Good luck with that.
Military leaders worry America’s youth are still too fat or dumb to fight
“Without coordinated action, these trends pose a significant threat to the future of the all-volunteer force.”
By Jared Keller December 28, 2020
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-recruitment-obesity-education-crime/
It only works at the beginning of empire. The US empire & home nation are in the late/last stage. AKA, the decadent stage. The US has been responding the same way the Romans did - with mercenaries or ‘contractors’ in PC speak. There’s plans for more mercs & obesity rates are climbing, along with it’s 200 comorbidities, with no end in sight & US dumbness appears to be 900% more infectious than SARS-CoV-2. No one in their right mind would fight for a ‘nation’ that’s thrown 80-90% of the people overboard & abandoned them to the parasitic corporate sharks. Anyone in in their right mind would flee to a civilized nation where your children won’t have to wear bullet proof backpacks to school & practice ‘active shooter drills’.
June 5th, 2021
Some insightful comments, as usual.
June 5th, 2021
Hatred of America was so cool & edgy during the 1980s. However, such mindless hatred has entered its late, decadent phase. It’s getting morbid now; sharing its comorbidities with other recklessly rampant dumbnesses.
Of course, obsessing over America does have the advantage of distracting you from your own inadequacies, and the parlous state of the real world. Like any other morbid addiction.
Naturally, historical agents have no phucking clue what “stage” they are in. Whether it’s late, early, middle, golden, silver, decadent, or whatever the phuck else. That’s a retrospective judgment, made by, y’know, people who have a clue what they’re phucking talking about.
For inst, use of mercenaries or ‘contractors’ as an indicator of decline. The British Empire, at its evil height, routinely deployed such proxy practices. And they didn’t conduce towards its decay.
To paraphrase Henry Jones, Sr. such appalling reasoning tells me that goose-stepping mor*ns should try reading books instead of burning them.
June 6th, 2021
Thank you for sharing. Apnea, there’s no where left to run.
July 11th, 2023
@caesar963 - You never know and yet YOU know best.
“…obsessing over America does have the advantage of distracting you from your own inadequacies, and the parlous state of the real world.”
Look who’s obsessing. You present yourself as an honest, unbiased, logical reader / critic. Be honest with yourself for a change.
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