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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... troops in constant training in frontier forts and legionary garrisons, from which detachments (vexillationes) could be gathered in field armies to suppress rare internal rebellions or repel foreign invaders.2 But until the third century ...
... troops were trained to fight with all of them. Man for man this made them superior to most of the enemies they faced in battle and, along with unit exercises, endowed Byzantine armies with superior tactical and operational versatility ...
... troops was employed with better success in countless fights until the last, but obdurate resistance, no matter how sturdy, cannot explain the Byzantines' survival either—they often faced enemies much too strong to be long resisted by ...
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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 |