First-century Jewish general Flavius Josephus surrendered to Roman forces and later wrote the historical account 'The Jewish War' while residing in Rome

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Roman Emperor Nero ordered the castration of a freedman youth named Sporus and held a public wedding ceremony taking Sporus as his empress

The Roman amphitheatre of El Jem in Tunisia is one of the largest preserved Roman coliseums outside of Italy

Following Roman Emperor Nero's death, Sporus was taken as a partner by Roman Emperor Otho

Sporus committed suicide in 69 AD to avoid being publicly sexually assaulted during a scheduled gladiatorial arena performance

Napoleon Bonaparte secured multiple military victories against European coalition armies by age 27

Napoleon Bonaparte achieved multiple military victories against major European coalitions by age 27

Historian Barry Strauss authored the book 'Jews versus Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion against the World's Mightiest Empire.'

Barry Strauss's 'Jews versus Rome' examines the Zealot uprising, the Diaspora rebellion, and the Bar Kokhba rebellion against the Roman Empire

The pre-2022 Russian military strategic concept of active defense was designed to survive an initial NATO aerospace assault and prevail through attrition

The Prussian General Staff served as the foundational model for subsequent modern general staffs

Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus established a permanent staff function by combining infantry, cavalry, and light artillery in tactical doctrine

The modern organizational structure of the Russian General Staff was established during the Second World War

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Imperial Russian military officers influenced by the Prussian model contributed to shaping the Soviet General Staff

Lieutenant General Vladimir Slipchenko proposed replacing conventional armed service branches with strategic offensive and strategic defensive commands focused on standoff missile strikes

While researching The Russian Understanding of War, Oskar Jonsson identified the Russian General Staff as the primary institution developing Russian military theory

Russian military theorists developed the concept of non-contact warfare in response to the United States military's performance in the 1991 Gulf War

The military concept of non-contact warfare was formulated by Russian Lieutenant General Vladimir Slipchenko

Officers selected for the Russian General Staff are separated from their service branches in their late twenties or early thirties to attend General Staff academies

General Edmund Allenby took command in Cairo following two disastrous frontal assaults at Gaza overseen by his predecessor

General Edmund Allenby assumed command of British forces in Egypt only weeks before T.E. Lawrence returned from capturing Aqaba in 1917