Vegetius De re militari - the origin and purpose of military literature

[Bernd]

Yes, I should have mentioned that because it complicates things further. Valturio made his own version of a military treatise with the same name as Vegetius'. Interestingly I have found conflicting opinions on how far Valturio's work is independent of Vegetius. Sean Roberts states:

Valturio’s book on military strategy was, in many ways, a wholly conventional project. Indeed, while it promised privileged and tactically useful knowledge, the text represented little more than an adaptation of a late fourth-century work of the same name by Vegetius. Yet, if the humanist’s treatise offered few martial secrets, its translation into print a decade later in nearby Verona was a technological triumph.

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Unfortunately, a lot of sources I found are not Open Access.