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| Title: The Strategy of the Second Punic War Secondary Title: Greece & Rome Volume: 7, No. 2 Pages: 131-142 Type: Journal Article Year: 1960 Abstract: The Carthaginian strategy for the Second Punic War had been devised shortly after the end of the First Punic War. Spain was a base for the coming invasion of Italy. The war-weary Romans, aware of Carthage's plans, ignored Carthaginian expansion and restricted themselves to 1) defensive preparations (Salmon here reducing the Gaulic threat to border maintenance), and 2) diplomatic pressure (Ebro treaty, and the strengthening of allies between Spain and Italy). Hannibal's "intelligence network" allowed him to cross into Italy before anyone could stop him, but he could not lay siege to Rome because his siege train could not navigate the Alpine pass(es). |