EUREKA - Roman army troops

[antiochus]

If you are still doing research then a release date in the next 13 months seems very unlikely to me. But anyway, as others have said I look forward to it whenever it is actually published.

Back in the early 80's, with some collegues, over dinner one night we decided to make a documentary about a New Zealand drug cartel. Four months later the documentary was finished. It remained up to the network when they decided to air it. The research I have left concerns Vegetius, the rest of the book is written. I am getting close to the next phase which involves bringing more academics into the circle to scrutinize it. I am very confident about my work. And I will state my mantra of only following the primary sources. I only use numbers in the primary sources, and for their period they fit. Only last week, someone else examined it and had no idea how to attack it, or discount any of it. When you step back and look at it, the Roman legion averages in size from 3000 to 6000 men, therefore, they are following a mathematical system that has an overall structure that does not change much. It's only the internal structures the Romans modify....how?........well if the Romans have 12 standards, and they drop six, you have a different legion structure happening instantly. Doesn't Livy tell us at Zama the cohort standards were replaced with maniple standards.

Look to Josephus' account of what the Jewish army should copy from the Romans. He makes an important statement that other historians have also made.