This forum mainly focusses on Eastern Practice and Philosophy, while I am more where East meets the West. I am sure that many of you here have heard of Sun Tzu's Art of War, the Western equavalent of that is Julius Frontinus's Strategemata from the time of Nerva. If you are looking for literature about strategy, then is this an important topic for you to read.
Here are some articles about Sextus Julius Frontinus Strategemata.
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... ta/1*.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... ta/2*.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... ta/3*.html
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/R ... ta/4*.html
Here are some of my favorite quotes from those books:
Strategemata Liber Primus;
XII. On dispelling the fears inspired in soldiers by adverse omens.
As Chabrias, the Athenian, was about to fight a naval battle, a thunderbolt fell directly across the path of his ship. When the soldiers were filled with dismay at such a portent, he said: "Now is the very time to begin battle, when Jupiter, mightiest of the gods, reveals that his power is present with our fleet.
Strategemata Liber Secundus;
VIII. On Restoring Morale by Firmness.
In the battle in which King Tarquinius encountered the Sabines, Servius Tullius, then a young man, noticing that the standard-bearers fought halfheartedly, seized a standard and hurled it into the ranks of the enemy. To recover it, the Romans fought so furiously that they not only regained the standard, but also won the day.
Strategemata Liber Secundus;
XI. On Ensuring the Loyalty of Those Whom One Mistrusts.
When Scipio Africanus was warring in Spain, there was brought before him among the captive women a noble maiden of surpassing beauty who attracted the gaze of everyone. Scipio guarded her with the greatest pains and restored her to her betrothed, Alicius by name, presenting to him likewise, as a marriage gift, the gold which her parents had brought to Scipio as a ransom. Overcome by this manifold generosity, the whole tribe leagued itself with the government of Rome.
Strategemata Liber Quartus;
VI. On Good Will and Moderation.
When Alexander was marching at the head of his troops one winter's day, he sat down by a fire and began to review the troops as they passed by. Noticing a certain soldier who was almost dead with the cold, he bade him sit in his place, adding: "If you had been born among the Persians, it would be a capital crime for you to sit on the king's seat; but since you were born in Macedonia, that privilege is yours.
Strategemata Liber Quartus;
V On Determination ("The Will to Victory")
Gaius Caesar, when about to fight the Germans and their king Ariovistus, at a time when his own men had been thrown into panic, called his soldiers together and declared to the assembly that on that day he proposed to employ the services of the tenth legion alone. In this way he caused the soldiers of this legion to be stirred by his tribute to their unique heroism, while the rest were overwhelmed with mortification to think that reputation for courage should be confined to others.
Here are some additional websites regarding Roman and Byzantine tactics:
http://www.roman-empire.net/army/army.html
http://www.roman-empire.net/army/tactics.html
http://www.roman-empire.net/diverse/battles.html
Caesar is Rome's number 1 Military Commander, Constantine number 2 and Scipio number 3.