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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... Syria, Jordan, Israel, and a slice of northern Iraq in the provinces of Mesopotamia and Osrhoene. In North Africa, the empire had the provinces of Egypt, reaching far up the Nile in Thebais, and the eastern half of modern Libya ...
... Syria” who were captured in a 399 raid through the Caucasus, according to the poet Claudian in his masterpiece of invective against Eutropius—the eunuch consul whom Claudian unfairly blamed for the Hun irruption, in which cities were ...
... Syria, they might have won their war. Geographic distance, as enhanced by terrain obstacles and a lack of usable resources (starting with water), or to the contrary, as alleviated by roads and bridges as well as usable resources along ...
... Syria and into Anatolia as far as Galatia, before retreating with their booty, captives, and volunteers.42 And the point is that even if there had been powerful Roman field forces in the region—an impossibility after the great loss of ...
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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 |