Ep 59: James Lacey on Roman Strategy
James Lacey, the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of War Studies at Marine Corps University and author of Rome: Strategy of Empire, joins the show to discuss the grand strategy of the Roman Empire.
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Show Notes
James Lacey, the Major General Matthew C. Horner Chair of War Studies at Marine Corps University and author of Rome: Strategy of Empire, joins the show to discuss the grand strategy of the Roman Empire.
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• 01:33 Introduction
• 01:59 A lover of history
• 05:12 The “Plato to NATO” historian
• 08:40 Edward Luttwak
• 13:20 The Romans “obviously had a strategy”
• 21:02 Speaking from historical silence
• 26:27 The Republic vs the Empire
• 32:50 Cost benefit analysis in Rome
• 35:57 Three moments of “muscle change”
• 41:33 Unable to adapt militarily
• 46:55 Lessons for America