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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... Constantine I to Constantine XI 423 Glossary 427 Notes 433 Works Cited Index of Names 473 491 General Index 495 3. 4. 10. 11. 12. 13. Maps 1. 2. The vi• Contents.
... Constantine had converted into his imperial capital and New Rome in the year 330. Having subdued its own Germanic warlords and outmaneuvered Attila's Huns in the supreme crisis of the fifth century that extinguished its western i BLACK ...
... Constantine XI Palaeologus fought to the death against the armies of the Ottoman conqueror Mehemet II with five thousand loyal subjects in arms. The loyalty that emperors could evoke from their troops was employed with better success in ...
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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 |