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THE GRAND STRATEGY OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE

Edward N. Luttwak

 

The Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Cambridge, 2009, 498 pgs., index, works cited, notes, maps, glossary

 
 

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Part I - The Invention of Byzantine Strategy

 
 

Chapter 1 - Attila and the Crisis of Empire

 
 

Chapter 2 - The Emergence of the New Strategy

 
 

Part II - Byzantine Diplomacy: The Myth and the Methods

 
 

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 III - The Byzantine Art of War

 
 

Chapter 10 - The Classical Inheriance

 
 

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 Maneuveres: Herakleios Defeats Persian

 
 

Conclusion: Grand Strategy and the Byzantine "Operational Code"

 
 

Appendix: Was Strategy Feasible in Byzantine Times?

 
 

Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI

 

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