December 23, 2018 ☼ history ☼ 107BC ☼ reforms

Gaius Marius | reforms

A very friendly and easy presentation of the outstanding reforms of Gaius Marius (157-86 BC).

20% of the army was non-combative but to provide support (logistics, engineering, morale, etc.), dramatically improving the military outcome. If only corporations will pay historians and anthropologists to help out with “fluid” modelling…

Also, among the first who figured it out that poor people makes formidable soldiers [if leaders are disciplined].