Aurelian's Strategy for Dealing With the Vandals

Aurelian's strategy for dealing with the vandals was to order that anything that could be consumed by men and horse be drawn inside the towns and cities of the provinces. Once the lack of provisions began to drag the vandals down, orelian swept in and crushed them in a quick battle. And it was during his reign that the so called germanization of the legions would really begin in earnest on an athawk basis. The empire had always been able to get tribes from beyond the frontiers to fight for them, going back as far as julius caesar. But the process was about to become more systematized and far more permanent.