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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