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. |
From inside the book
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... Attila and the Crisis of Empire 17 The Emergence of the New Strategy 49 Byzantine Diplomacy: The Myth and the Methods 95 3 4 Envoys 97 Religion and Statecraft 113 5 The Uses of Imperial Prestige 124 6 Dynastic Marriages 137 7 The ...
... Attila's Huns in the supreme crisis of the fifth century that extinguished its western i BLACK SEA Map 1. The division of the empire. The. Invention. of. Byzantine. Strategy. Attila and the Crisis of Empire. I. The Invention of Byzantine ...
... Attila had united the Hun clans and added many foreign subjects, Alans, Gepids, Heruli, Rugi, Sciri, and Suevi, to ... Attila's Huns was deflected with a minimum of force and a maximum of persuasion—they attacked westward instead—and it ...
... Attila's Huns, the greater-than-expected threat in modern parlance. Ever since the imperial frontiers were first breached on a large scale under emperor Decius (249–251)—in one incident among many, in the year 250 a band of Franks ...
... Attila's Huns. For the specific tactical and operational reasons outlined in Chapter 1, military measures by themselves could no longer offer any hope of success. That is when major strategic innovation occurs, not when it is first ...
Contents
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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 |
Index of Names
| 491 |
General Index
| 495 |