Ep 120: Iskander Rehman on the Emperor Tiberius and American Primacy

School of War · Apr 23, 2024 · 44m

Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Kissinger Center and author of Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius, joins the show to talk about the military career and statecraft of Tiberius and what his career has to teach us today.

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Times

• 02:32 Introduction

• 03:29 The Pentagon and Rome

• 07:29 Why Tiberius?

• 15:04 Parallels

• 18:26 Germania

• 22:38 Roman criticism

• 28:03 Auxiliaries and proxies

• 32:09 Diplomacy and a recruitment crisis

• 34:00 A brilliant military career

• 37:17 Force structure

• 41:18 Parthian Cold War

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