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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... territorial control, and its Roman political identity in a process so gradual that the removal of the last imperial figurehead, Romulus Augustus, on September 4, 476, was mere formality. There were local accommodations with the invaders ...
... territories of modern Macedonia, Bulgaria, the Black Sea coast of Romania, Greece, Cyprus, and European Turkey—the ancient Thrace—with Constantinople itself. In Asia, imperial territory consisted of the vast peninsula of Anatolia, now ...
... territory was overrun by invaders, and Constantinople itself was besieged several times from its foundation in 330 to its ruinous seizure by the Catholic Fourth Crusade in 1204, after which it was not an empire that was restored but ...
... territory; then diplomacy was mostly employed to extract concessions from other powers intimidated by Byzantine victories—or at least to keep them from interfering. Sometimes the Byzantine army and navy were so weak—or their enemies so ...
... territories than before. The enemies of the empire could defeat its armies and fleets in battle, but they could not ... territories from incursions and territorial invasions, though at great cost to the taxpayers 12 • The Invention of ...
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 |