Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire

Name: Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire
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ISBN: 9780674062078

ISBN-10: 0674062078

ISBN-13: 9780674062078

Edition: 2009

Authors: Edward N. Luttwak

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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Edward N. Luttwak is a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.



List of Maps


Preface



The Invention of Byzantine Strategy



Attila and the Crisis of Empire



The Emergence of the New Strategy



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



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


Notes


Works Cited


Index of Names


General Index