The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire is written with a profound knowledge of the field, a thorough mastery of the sources and secondary literature, and a lively and engaging style that both specialists and general readers will appreciate.
   --Peter B. Golden, Rutgers University

Edward Luttwak makes a persuasive, well-documented argument that the Byzantines--given the continuity of their institutions, their sense of a historical mission, and their own manuals on statecraft and warfare--had a coherent strategy that enabled them to preserve an empire shielded by few geographical barriers and surrounded by a host of hostile neighbors.
   --Eric McGeer, author of Sowing the Dragon's Teeth: Byzantine Warfare in the Tenth Century

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

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