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Author Topic: Hail Caesar - Sassanid List Infantry Limits?  (Read 2257 times)

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Re: Hail Caesar - Sassanid List Infantry Limits?
« Reply #16 on: June 11, 2019, 09:23:01 AM »
Another Academia paper that may helpu

https://www.academia.edu/1988347/Fighting_the_Other_Part_III_Military_and_Society_in_Sasanian_Iran_Uncorrected_Proof_

It's a good paper as a largely political overview, but tends to understate the extent of centralised state military power in my view.

The manpower issue is also crucial with plague decimating the Sasanian forces at a critical point when they were facing a renewed threat from Byzantium and the Muslim Conquests.

Tafazzoli on the structure of the military establishment is very useful.
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Re: Hail Caesar - Sassanid List Infantry Limits?
« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2019, 02:24:39 AM »
Shahbahraz, Jericho, thank for the info.