De Re MilitariFlavius Vegetius, Charles Johnson
De Re Militari
by Flavius Vegetius, Charles Johnson · first published 2024
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…castle. > Yeah, that’s unlikely to work out. > Frankly, if you find yourself in this position the castle is probably already lost. This argument directly contradicts the instructions of Vegetius, whose De Re Militari was *the* definitive military manual of the Middle Ages. Specifically, in book 4, he writes, > Innumerable instances are to be met with where the enemy were entirely cut in pieces, even after they had…
on “Medieval staircases were NOT built going clockwise for the defender's advantage” ↗…of prepare for war? [edit, found the real version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_vis_pacem%2C_para_bellum ] adapted from a statement found in Roman author Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus's tract De Re Militari (fourth or fifth century AD), in which the actual phrasing is Igitur qui desiderat pacem, præparet bellum ("Therefore let him who desires peace prepare for war").
on “Nowhere Is Safe” ↗