ANCIENT WARFARE XV-1 - OUTSIDE OF THE ORDINARY

Sempre disponibile questo ormai ben noto bimestrale di storia militare antica realizzato in Olanda ma con testo in lingua inglese. Ogni numero di 50 pagine contiene interessanti articoli abilmente illustrati con foto e tavole a colori.

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If ancient soldiers were trained at all, it was generally for fighting in a formation in the battle line. But on rare occasions, generals would train and use troops for special operations.

Theme: Special Operations in antiquity

• Ron Ruiters, 'Historical introduction - Ancient Special Operations'.
• Ross Cowan, 'Scouting for the soldier-emperor - Exploratores'.
• Paul Bardunias, 'Father of Special Operations forces - Philopoemen at Gythium'.
• Murray Dahm, 'Demosthenes and the Battle of Olpae, 426 BC - Lessons for the future'.
• Adam Johnson, 'Special Operations at the Sogdian Rock - Alexander's mountaineers'.
• Valentine J. Belfiglio and Murray Dahm, 'The Battle of Camarina, 258 BC - The 300 Romans'.
• Sean Strong, 'Late antique military operations at twilight - Death, confusion, and darkness'.

Features:

• Simon Elliott, 'Neolithic Jericho and the first evidence of warfare - Walls that didn't tumble down'.
• Anneka Mihajlov, 'The Hippotoxotai of Athens - The 'Paris' of the cavalry'.

• Mark McCaffery, 'A deadly Roman sidearm - The Pugio'.
• Jo Ball, 'The Kalkriese battlefield - Varus and Germanicus'.