Iskander Rehman, Ax:son Johnson Fellow at the Johns Hopkins SAIS Kissinger Center and author of Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius, joins the show to talk about the military career and statecraft of Tiberius and what his career has to teach us today.▪️ Times     •      02:32 Introduction     •      03:29 The Pentagon and Rome    •      07:29 Why Tiberius?    •      15:04 Parallels     •      18:26 Germania    •      22:38 Roman criticism     •      28:03 Auxiliaries and proxies     •      32:09 Diplomacy and a recruitment crisis    •      34:00 A brilliant military career    •      37:17 Force structure    •      41:18 Parthian Cold WarFollow along  on InstagramFind a transcript of today’s episode on our School of War SubstackBuy the book here - Iron Imperator: Roman Grand Strategy Under Tiberius