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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... ambushes and sieges, when bowmen in the role of snipers had opportunities to aim carefully at single targets; a piercing range of up to 60 meters, against most forms of scale (sewn on), mail (interlocked rings), or lamellar (linked ...
... ambushes was so common a cavalry tactic that no prudent commander would allow headlong pursuits. As we shall see in Part III, Byzantine military manuals advised extreme caution when pursuing fleeing enemy cavalry, especially in broken ...
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Contents
1 | |
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 |