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Alexander, Hannibal, Caesareach was a master of war. Each had to look beyond the battlefield to decide whom to fight, when, and why; to know what victory was and when to end the war; to determine how to bring stability to the lands he conquered. Each general had to be a battlefield tactician and more: a statesman, a strategist, a leader.
Tactics change, weapons change, but war itself remains much the same throughout the centuries, and a great warrior must know how to define success. Understanding where each of these three great (but flawed) commanders succeeded and failed can serve anyone who wants to think strategically or has to demonstrate leadership. In Masters of Command, Barry Strauss explains the qualities these great generals shared, the keys to their success, from ambition and judgment to leadership itself.
The result of years of research, Masters of Command is based on surviving written documents and archeological evidence as well as the authors travels in Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, and Tunisia in the footsteps of Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesar.
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P RAISE FOR M ASTERS OF C OMMAND
Barry Strauss has done it again: Masters of Command combines the timeless wisdom of the classical world with the urgent realities of modern warfare. This is a stunning handbook on leadershipboth on and off the battlefield.
Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Barry Strauss has written a riveting, fast-paced, penetrating volume around three powerful war leadersAlexander the Great, Hannibal, and Caesar. While other classicists draw on ancient philosophers for lessons on the life well lived, Professor Strauss looks to men of action and determination for lessons on leadership and strategy. Its a great read, packed with terrific insights.
Karl Rove
With Masters of Command , Barry Strauss further establishes himself as one of our premier historians of the classical world.... There are lessons here not only for budding military strategists but also for great captains of the boardroom. And, most important, there is a crackling good read for anyone who delves into this insightful and entertaining new book.
Max Boot, Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, The Council on Foreign Relations, and author of War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History: 1500 to Today
Alexander, Hannibal, and Caesarthis is a book on leadership like no other. A rare combination of stirring dialogue, masterful ancient scholarship, and sage adviceboth lessons and warnings. Just as Asian corporate planners read Sun Tzu, Western entrepreneurs and strategic thinkers will want to read Masters of Command .
Robert L. OConnell, author of The Ghosts of Cannae: Hannibal and the Darkest Hour of the Roman Republic
Barry Strauss has no superior and few counterparts as a scholar of ancient military history and a student of war.
Dennis Showalter, former president, Society for Military History
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To Donald Kagan, Walter LaFeber , and in memory of Alvin Bernstein
Ancient names are spelled following the style of the standard reference work, The Oxford Classical Dictionary , 3rd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
Translations from the Greek or Latin are my own, unless otherwise noted.
(All dates are B.C .)
480479 | The Persian Empire invades Greece, led by King Xerxes, and is defeated. |
Birth of Alexander | |
Macedon defeats Greeks at Battle of Chaeronea; Alexander commands cavalry | |
Philip of Macedon is assassinated; Alexander becomes king. | |
MayJune 334 | Alexander invades Persian Empire; Battle of the Granicus River |
Autumn 334 | Siege of Halicarnassus |
June 333 | Death of Memnon of Rhodes |
November 333 | Battle of Issus |
JanuaryAugust 332 | Siege of Tyre |
Greek revolt against Macedon | |
October 1, 331 | Battle of Gaugamela |
Alexander burns Persepolis; death of Darius; execution of Parmenio and Philotas | |
330327 | Campaigns in Bactria and Sogdiana |
May 326 | Battle of the Hydaspes |
July 326 | Mutiny in India |
Alexander returns to Iran | |
324323 | Alexander prepares invasion of Arabia |
Summer 324 | Banquet at Opis |
Autumn 324 | Death of Hephaestion |
June 10, 323 | Death of Alexander |
280275 | Pyrrhuss invasion of Italy and Sicily |
264241 | First Punic War |
Birth of Hannibal | |
Hamilcar Barca goes to Spain, taking Hannibal with him | |
Death of Hamilcar; Hasdrubal the Handsome, Hamilcars son-in-law, now in command in Spain | |
Ebro treaty | |
Death of Hasdrubal the Handsome; Hannibal now in command in Spain | |
Hannibal captures Saguntum after eight-month siege; Rome issues ultimatum | |
218201 | Second Punic War |
Autumn 218 | Hannibal crosses the Alps; leaves his brother, Hasdrubal, in charge of Spain |
November 218 | Battle of the Ticinus River |
December 218 | Battle of the Trebia River |
Spring 217 | Romans defeat Carthaginian fleet off the Ebro River in Spain |
June 21, 217 | Battle of Lake Trasimene |
SummerFall 217 | Fabius is appointed dictator and begins delaying strategy |
August 2, 216 | Battle of Cannae |
Late 216 | Capua joins Hannibal |
Alliance between Hannibal and Macedonian king Philip V; Syracuse joins Hannibal | |
Hannibal takes Tarentum but Romans hold the citadel; Rome retakes Syracuse | |
Hannibal marches on Rome; Rome retakes Capua | |
Scipio takes New Carthage | |
Battle of Baecula; Rome retakes Tarentum | |
Battle of the Metaurus River; death of Hasdrubal, Hannibals brother | |
Battle of Ilipa | |
Mago invades Italy; Hannibal places inscription in temple of Hera Lacinia | |
Hannibal returns to Africa; death of Mago | |
Autumn 202 | Battle of Zama |
Carthage agrees to treaty with Rome ending Second Punic War | |
Hannibal serves as chief magistrate of Carthage | |
195183 | Hannibal in the East |
Death of Hannibal | |
149146 | Third Punic War |
Carthage is destroyed | |
Birth of Caesar | |
8281 | Sulla is dictator |
6662 | Pompey conquers the East |
6160 | Caesar campaigns in western Spain |
5850 | Caesar conquers Gaul |
January 12, 49 | Caesar crosses the Rubicon |
February 49 | Siege of Corfinium |
March 17, 49 | Pompey evacuates Brundisium |
SpringAutumn 49 | Siege of Massilia |
JuneAugust 49 | Battle of Ilerda |
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