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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... sent me a typescript of part of his eagerly awaited edition of Leo's Taktika, which I urgently needed to complete this book; generosity is mere habit for George T. Dennis of the Society of Jesus. Walter E. Kaegi Jr., whose works ...
... sent to reinforce the garrison for the occasion would know how to countermine, and how to attack siege engines. But again, that takes time, certainly weeks if not months—time that could easily be denied by the swift arrival of the Huns ...
... sent to alert Roman command posts at record speed, outpacing the Huns. But because the raiders are very many and not few, to avoid a debacle sizable forces must be assembled to intercept their expected line of advance. During each day ...
... sent to negotiate with him in 449, we can recognize Attila's use of specific techniques to enhance his authority that were by then ancient, but effective withal; indeed, the very same techniques were used not long ago by other “great ...
... sent envoys to Constantinople and to Ravenna, seat of what remained of the western empire. A modern historian described him as a diplomatic “bungler” and catalogued his errors.48 Perhaps so, but for a nomad king to concurrently ...
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 |