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Protracted Warfare

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Attrition’s Apostle? Reading Vegetius in an Age of Protracted Warfare

In an era of protracted, attritional conflicts that seem to drag on indefinitely, the ancient wisdom of Roman military strategist Flavius Vegetius has never seemed more relevant. His work, De Re Militari (On Military Matters), often hailed as one of…