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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... Huns, Avars, Onogur-Bulghars, Magyars, Pechenegs, and finally Cumans—all of them mounted archers inherently more dangerous than the Germanic enemies of the western empire on the 4 • The Invention of Byzantine Strategy.
... Pechenegs, remained loosely affiliated tribes, clans, and war bands; they had an identity but not overall chiefs or common institutions, so “nation” they must be after all. Such indeed were also the Huns, a large nation by the time ...
... Pechenegs, Cumans, Mongols, and finally the Mongol-Turkic subjects of Timur, our Tamerlane. And these are tactics that the Byzantines would eventually learn to imitate very successfully (lariats aside), and even improve. First there are ...
... Pechenegs, Cumans, and finally the Mongols. But the Huns had the inestimable advantage of surprise in the fullest sense even beyond strategic—of cultural surprise, so to speak, because they were the first of their kind to reach the west ...
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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 |