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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... heavy infantry as the core of the army during the sixth century were not children of the steppe, merely well-trained. The composite reflex bow that is so hard to manufacture and so hard to use redeems itself with its performance in ...
... infantry in arms by dropping their shields. The Spartan mother might tell her son, “Come back with your shield, or ... heavy lances, so they could outrun fleeing cavalry as well as defeated enemies on foot; they also had less to fear ...
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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 |