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The Strategy of the Second Punic War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

E. T. Salmon
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The strategy of the Carthaginians, in the writer's opinion, must be regarded as an aggressive one that had been devised long before the outbreak of the war in 218 B.c. The view that their operations in Spain did not have an attack on Italy as their ultimate object is naïve. The truth is that they went to Spain after their defeat in the First Punic War precisely in order to build up a base. They hoped to make it the point d'appui for their planned war of revenge against Rome: the Iberian peninsula was to be for them a springboard for attack.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , October 1960 , pp. 131 - 142
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1960

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