Key sentence that needs more work from Tony McArthur's article on Roman Army "professionalism" before Augustus: "There is nothing to support the assertion that earlier Roman soldiers [pre-Augustus] were 'long-service' professionals, even is some repeatedly re-enlisted." (p. 25)
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On campaign length, the traditional view has always been that campaigns got longer post-264 as they got further away from Italy, but Rosenstein has chipped at this view a bit in Rome at War (2004) by arguing against short seasonal warfare in Italy.
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Trying to study campaign length is an interesting idea but it would be tricky - you'd be very beholden to Livy for knowing when existing formations were merely augmented or when they were replaced each year with the consuls.
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