The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine EmpireIn this book, the distinguished writer Edward N. Luttwak presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the more familiar western Roman empire, eight hundred years by the shortest definition. This extraordinary endurance is all the more remarkable because the Byzantine empire was favored neither by geography nor by military preponderance. Yet it was the western empire that dissolved during the fifth century. |
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... Steppe 8 3. The defenses of Constantinople 4. The empire at the accession and death of Justinian, 527–565 82 2 68 5. The empire in 1025 at the death of Basil II 6. The Muslim offensives, 662–740 200 7. The empire in 668, after the Slav ...
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Contents
I The Invention of Byzantine Strategy | 1 |
The Myth and the Methods | 95 |
III The Byzantine Art of War | 235 |
Grand Strategy and the Byzantine Operational Code | 409 |
Was Strategy Feasible in Byzantine Times? | 421 |
Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI | 423 |
Glossary | 427 |
Notes | 433 |
Works Cited | 473 |
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