id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2570 Military of ancient Rome - Wikipedia .html text/html 7457 730 66 Titus Flavius Josephus, a contemporary historian, sometime high-ranking officer in the Roman army, and commander of the rebels in the Jewish revolt describes the Roman people as if they were "born readily armed."[2] At the time of the two historians, Roman society had already evolved an effective military and had used it to defend itself against the Etruscans, the Italics, the Greeks, the Gauls, the maritime empire of Carthage, and the Macedonian kingdoms. Because of these deployments, the Roman military kept a central strategic reserve after the Social War. Such reserves were only re-established during the late Empire when the army was split into a border defense force and mobile response field units. Only in the late Empire did the preservation of control over Rome's territories become the Roman military's primary role. At this time, Physicians were attached to nearly every Army and Navy Unit in all the Roman Military. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2570.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2570.txt