The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire [electronic resource] / Edward N. Luttwak.
Luttwak, Edward.
2009
U163 .L86 2009eb
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Title
The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire [electronic resource] / Edward N. Luttwak.
Author
Luttwak, Edward.
ISBN
9780674054202 (electronic bk.)
9780674035195
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xi, 498 p.) : maps
Call Number
U163 .L86 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
355/.033549500902
Summary
In this book, the distinguished writer Edward 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. This book is a broad, interpretive account of Byzantine strategy, intelligence, and diplomacy over the course of eight centuries that will appeal to scholars, classicists, military history buffs, and professional soldiers.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-490) and index.
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pt. 1. The invention of Byzantine strategy
Attila and the crisis of empire
The emergence of the new strategy
pt. 2. Byzantine diplomacy : the myth and the methods
Envoys
Religion and statecraft
The uses of imperial prestige
Dynastic marriages
The geography of power
Bulghars and Bulgarians
The Muslim Arabs and Turks
pt. 3. The Byzantine art of war
The classical inheritance
The strategikon of Maurikios
After the strategikon
Leo VI and naval warfare
The tenth-century military renaissance
Strategic maneuver : Herakleios defeats Persia
Conclusion: Grand strategy and the Byzantine "operational code"
Appendix: Was strategy feasible in Byzantine times?
Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI
Glossary.

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