The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire 1st Edition by Edward N Luttwak ISBN 0674035194 9780674035195
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ISBN 10: 0674035194
ISBN 13: 9780674035195
Author: Edward N. Luttwak
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. Yet it was the western empire that dissolved during the fifth century. The Byzantine empire so greatly outlasted its western counterpart because its rulers were able to adapt strategically to diminished circumstances, by devising new ways of coping with successive enemies. It relied less on military strength and more on persuasion—to recruit allies, dissuade threatening neighbors, and manipulate potential enemies into attacking one another instead. Even when the Byzantines fought—which they often did with great skill—they were less inclined to destroy their enemies than to contain them, for they were aware that today’s enemies could be tomorrow’s allies. Born in the fifth century when the formidable threat of Attila’s Huns were deflected with a minimum of force, Byzantine strategy continued to be refined over the centuries, incidentally leaving for us several fascinating guidebooks to statecraft and war.
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire 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.
Table of contents:
PART ONE: Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Attila and the Crisis of Empire
CHAPTER 2: The Emergence of the New Strategy
PART TWO: Introduction
CHAPTER 3: Envoys
CHAPTER 4: Religion and Statecraft
CHAPTER 5: The Uses of Imperial Prestige
CHAPTER 6: Dynastic Marriages
CHAPTER 7: The Geography of Power
CHAPTER 8: Bulghars and Bulgarians
CHAPTER 9: The Muslim Arabs and Turks
PART THREE: Introduction
CHAPTER 10: The Classical Inheritance
CHAPTER 11: The Strategikon of Maurikios
CHAPTER 12: After the Strategikon
CHAPTER 13: Leo VI and Naval Warfare
CHAPTER 14: The Tenth-Century Military Renaissance
CHAPTER 15: Strategic Maneuver: Herakleios Defeats Persia
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