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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... chronicles but also poems, letters, saintly biographies, and writings on quite other subjects by way of incidental comment. The invaders described or just deplored in those writings included the Germanic Alamanni, Burgundians, Riparian ...
... Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes, who was writing in the sixth century, recalls the invasion: A mighty war, greater than the previous one, was brought upon us by king Attila. It devastated almost the whole of Europe [the province Europa] ...
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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 |