{"id":98632,"date":"2026-02-23T02:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=98632"},"modified":"2025-10-19T23:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:04:47","slug":"grand-strategy-of-the-roman-empire-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/02\/23\/grand-strategy-of-the-roman-empire-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire PART TWO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Afu4EXclVwQ?si=xcQ4kF_uViSUYHNc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 27 Aug 2025<\/p>\n<p>This should have posted earlier this morning, but for some reason did not.<\/p>\n<p>This is the follow up to last week&#8217;s discussion of grand strategy, looking at the reactions and criticisms of Luttwak&#8217;s ideas, followed by some of my own thoughts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Goldsworthy. Historian and Novelist Published 27 Aug 2025 This should have posted earlier this morning, but for some reason did not. This is the follow up to last week&#8217;s discussion of grand strategy, looking at the reactions and criticisms of Luttwak&#8217;s ideas, followed by some of my own thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,62,7,5],"tags":[1566,31,316,1095,624,1343,1575],"class_list":["post-98632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-adriangoldsworthy","tag-army","tag-borders","tag-fortification","tag-maps","tag-romanempire","tag-strategy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pEQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98633,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98632\/revisions\/98633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}