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Roman Army "General Staff"?
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Hello all,

I'm looking for recommendations for readily available books / articles around the "administration" of the Roman Military in the early Imperial period - up through the time of Emperor Hadrian.  I've never seen any extensive discussion of how army-wide policies, standards, and practices were determined, distributed, and inspected for conformance.  For example, the Roman military had --looking at Trajan's column -- a fairly standard distribution of armor, weapons, etc., rather than a "bring-your-own" approach to out-fitting soldiers.  So....who / how was it decided that shields were curved oblongs?  Was there in the palatium in Rome some bureaus staffed with retired military / freedmen / greedy contractors....who decided on "advanced" weaponry?   After Trajan's Dacian wars the helmet changed to avoid legionaries get their heads crushed by Dacian faix(s).  Who did the design  / made prototypes / field tests?  Was there some embryonic "general staff" 1800 years before the Prussians?

thanks for any help here!!
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Roman Army "General Staff"? - by Mikeh55 - 07-06-2017, 07:57 PM
RE: Roman Army "General Staff"? - by Nathan Ross - 07-11-2017, 12:24 PM
RE: Roman Army "General Staff"? - by Mikeh55 - 07-14-2017, 01:49 PM
RE: Roman Army "General Staff"? - by Nathan Ross - 07-14-2017, 02:45 PM
RE: Roman Army "General Staff"? - by richsc - 07-16-2017, 04:43 AM
RE: Roman Army "General Staff"? - by Christopher Herndon - 11-30-2017, 06:13 PM

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