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Maps 8
Preface 10
The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire 14
Part one. The Invention of Byzantine Strategy 15
Chapter 1. Attila and the Crisis of Empire 31
The Composite Reflex Bow 36
The Operational Level 42
The Level of Theater Strategy 44
Processes and Personality: Attila 50
Chapter 2. The Emergence of the New Strategy 63
The Tactical Revolution 70
Intelligence and Covert Action 76
Fortress Constantinople 81
Justinian's Reversal Reversed: Victory and Plague 91
Part two. Byzantine Diplomacy: The Myth and the Methods 109
Chapter 3. Envoys 111
Chapter 4. Religion and Statecraft 127
Chapter 5. The Uses of Imperial Prestige 138
Chapter 6. Dynastic Marriages 151
Chapter 7. The Geography of Power 159
Chapter 8. Bulghars and Bulgarians 186
The War of 811, Themata and Tagmata 191
A War of State Destruction: Basil II, 1014-1018 204
„Byzantine” Diplomacy in Byzantium 211
Chapter 9. The Muslim Arabs and Turks 213
The Muslim Conquest and Tax Reduction 217
Christians, Jews, and the Muslim Conquest 221
The Caliphate and Constantinople 227
The Seljuk Turks and the Decline of the Empire 235
Part three. The Byzantine Art of War 251
Chapter 10. The Classical Inheritance 255
Syrianos Magister on Naval Tactics 271
Peri Strategikes / De Re Strategica 274
Chapter 11. The Strategikon of Maurikios 282
Attrition and Maneuver 297
The Byzantine Style of War 303
Chapter 12. After the Strategikon 320
Leo VI on Fighting the Muslims 322
The Sylloge Tacticorum 329
Heron of Byzantium 329
De Obsidione Toleranda: A Manual on Resisting Sieges 333
Chapter 13. Leo VI and Naval Warfare 339
Greek Fire 340
The Dromon 343
Naval Strength in Byzantine Strategy 350
Chapter 14. The Tenth-Century Military Renaissance 356
De Velitatione (Skirmishing) 357
De Re Militari (Campaign Organization) 373
The Praecepta Militaria of Nikephoros II Phokas 381
The Taktika of Nikephoros Ouranos 394
The Strategikon of Kekaumenos 405
Chapter 15. Strategic Maneuver: Herakleios Defeats Persia 411
Conclusion: Grand Strategy and the Byzantine „Operational Code” 427
Identity 428
The Logic of Strategy 430
The Byzantine „Operational Code” 433
Appendix 437
Appendix: Was Strategy Feasible in Byzantine Times? 439
Emperors from Constantine I to Constantine XI 441
The Western Empire 441
The Eastern Empire 442
Lascarid Dynasty in Nicea 444
Glossary 447
Notes 456
Abbreviations 456
Part I. The Invention of Byzantine Strategy 457
1. Attila and the Crisis of Empire 460
2. The Emergence of the New Strategy 467
Part II. Byzantine Diplomacy 474
3. Envoys 474
4. Religion and Statecraft 476
5. The Uses of Imperial Prestige 478
6. Dynastic Marriages 480
7. The Geography of Power 482
8. Bulghars and Bulgarians 486
9. The Muslim Arabs and Turks 490
III. The Byzantine Art of War 495
10. The Classical Inheritance 495
11. The Strategikon of Maurikios 498
12. After the Strategikon 504
13. Leo VI and Naval Warfare 508
14. The Tenth-Century Military Renaissance 510
15. Strategic Maneuver: Herakleios Defeats Persia 520
Conclusion 523
Appendix 524
Works Cited 527
Index of Names 557
General Index 565