The grand strategy of the Byzantine Empire

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.