Byzantine Art of War

★Surrounded by powerful enemies, the building will collapse - How can a thousand-year-old empire continue to prosper? "The Art of War of Byzantium" - a thousand-year war history of surviving against the odds ★Combining macro-strategy with specific combat examples, drawing on the strengths of classic historical materials and contemporary historians ★Translated by Ma Qian, translator of "1453: The Fall of Constantinople", author of "The Complete History of the Knights Hospitaller", and well-known military history broadcaster ★Eleven high-definition and detailed historical maps provide a comprehensive overview of the thousand-year history of changes in the Eastern Roman Empire's mountains and rivers, provinces, military regions, and urban road networks. ★More than twenty refined strategic situation maps, dynamic analysis of famous battles in the history of the empire [About the author] Michael J. Decker is a professor of Byzantine history at the University of South Florida. He has conducted extensive research on Byzantine archeology and history in the Middle East and North Africa. [Introduction] From 330 AD when Constantine I moved the capital of the Roman Empire to the new city named after him, Constantinople, to the final fall of Constantinople in 1453 AD, the Byzantine Empire passed through the classical era and the Middle Ages and existed for thousands of years in the long history. The Castle, located on the Bosporus, straddles the two continents of Europe and Asia. Although it has amazing wealth brought by trade routes, it has also fallen into the land of four wars. The Empire's enemies come from all directions and never end. War is the eternal theme of this thousand-year empire. For the Roman Empire in the Middle Ages, war no longer meant conquest and glory, but had only one purpose: survival. With clear logic and flying words, this book tells how this empire has withstood thousands of years of military hardships, learned, adjusted, and evolved from disasters that could destroy most civilizations, and developed tit-for-tat new tactics against endless new enemies, thus gaining new life again and again. The author of this book, Dr. Michael Decker, an expert on Byzantine history, relies on his solid professional knowledge to introduce the relevant historical background, the organization and leadership, training and equipment of the imperial army, and the main enemies faced by the empire in various periods. He combines macro strategies with specific combat examples, and finally refines and summarizes the war philosophy on which Byzantium depends for its survival. Surprisingly, many of the experience summaries of this Byzantine art of war coincide with Sun Tzu's art of war 2,500 years ago, and can even be seen as expressions of the same idea in different contexts. It can be seen that even in the most extreme and cruel field of war, human wisdom is still the same.