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Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War

By Steele Brand
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By Steele Brand
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How Rome's citizen—soldiers conquered the world—and why this militaristic ideal still has a place in America today.

"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...

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