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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... Thrace—with Constantinople itself. In Asia, imperial territory consisted of the vast peninsula of Anatolia, now Asiatic Turkey, as well as Syria, Jordan, Israel, and a slice of northern Iraq in the provinces of Mesopotamia and Osrhoene ...
... Thracian has my noble shield: I had to run; I dropped it in a wood. But I got clear away, thank God! So hang The Shield! I'll get another, just as good.30 Victorious cavalry could pursue and cut down fleeing enemies, but not if they ...
... Thrace all the way up to Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica, in Vojvodina, Serbia), a straight-line distance of six hundred kilometers, by way of Serdica (Sofia, Bulgaria), Naissus (Nish, Serbia), Viminacium (Kostolac), Margus (near Dubravica) ...
... Thrace and Constantinople, some eight hundred straight-line kilometers away and twice that overland, more or less. Or he could send them in a westward direction to attack Gaul, where Roman lives continued sometimes grandly as the empire ...
... Thrace. Theodosius [II, 408–450] . . . sent out Aspar [Flavius Ardabur Aspar, an Alan and the empire's highest-ranking officer as magister militum, Master of Soldiers,] with his force together with Areobindos and Argagisklos51 against ...
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 |