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Long time lurker first post.
Recently I was reading about the late Roman Empire and started reading about Majorian. I was very surprised by what he accomplished during his short reign. And as soon as I read about his failed attempt to reconquer Carthage it made wonder “what if he wasn’t betrayed?”, could he have retaken Carthage? And could he have turned the western Roman Empire around? My understanding of the late Empire was that it was undoubtedly doomed but from what little I’ve read of him it seemed like he knew that he couldn’t fix Rome trough conquest alone and that it needed major internal reform.
I’m also curious about his armies and the late Roman army in general. I really can’t find anything about it on the internet, most searches lead me to the Roman army of the republic and principate. Did he just use barbarians or did he have real Romans serving in the army? And how well trained were they?