The Vandalic War was a conflict fought in North Africa (largely in modern Tunisia) between the forces of the Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") Empire and the Vandal Kingdom of Carthage, in 533–534. It was the first of Justinian the Great's wars of reconquest of the lost Western Roman Empire, and was waged against the advice of most of his councillors. The East Romans took advantage of the Vandals' distraction with a rebellion in Sardinia and landed an army under Belisarius in central Tunisia. In two decisive engagements, the Romans defeated the Vandals, captured their king, Gelimer, and conquered their kingdom.
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“Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.”
—Martha Gellhorn (b. 1908)