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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... mobile; and they penetrated deep in unpredictable directions, so that it was very hard to intercept them at all—and if the encounter did take place, the Huns could usually outfight their enemies anyway. The outcome of the military ...
... mobile fighting posts, large swingingbeam rams, protected scaling ladders, and “all manner of other engines,” and their relative inferiority in besieging cities even after that, if only because they had no supply trains to feed their ...
... mobile forces at Adrianople in 378 and too many troubles since—it would still have been virtually impossible to intercept the Huns. They maneuvered in different directions much too fast—“flying hither and tither on their swift steeds ...
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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 |