Innovative and energetic, Scipio dramatically changed Roman military strategy and tactics, ultimately out-Hannibaling Hannibal at the decisive battle of Zama.
Increasingly rare, the man who's a student of history gives himself the benefit of a very wide lens when contemplating problems: he can draw on Roman artillery strategy, Cold War negotiating tactics, and obscure French economic policy, among others.
This situation was made worse during the Second Punic War, when Hannibal fought the Romans throughout Italy, and the Romans adopted a strategy of attrition and guerrilla warfare in response.
Last year, Roman Kikta, director of strategy and business creation at the Nokia Ventures Organization, a business group of the Nokia Corporation, traveled with a Nokia senior executive from Texas to San Francisco for a meeting with Mr. Ma.
"Divide and conquer" has been a winning military strategy since Roman times.
Mr. Lugo, a former Roman Catholic bishop, outlined a strategy that included the creation of a shadow cabinet.
The licensing agreement between the Vatican Library and a California retail company called 1451 International Inc. is only one sign of a new strategy in the Roman Catholic Church.
The military strategist Edward Luttwak, in his 1976 book "The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire," examined how Rome's legions protected its frontiers.
Several millennia later, it was also a strategy that enabled Roman emperors to keep power as the empire evolved and there was a need to be nearer to areas of commerce or conflict.
309 379 Shāpūr II, byname Shāpūr The Great (born ad 309 died 379) 10th king of the Sāsānian Empire of Persia, who withstood Roman strength by astute military strategy and diplomacy and brought the empire to the zenith of its power.
