Limitations defense-in-depth strategy
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• Can’t really explain strategy – broad strategy of defence-in-depth – Palestine an Syria small-scale frequent nomadic raid did not require mustering and dispatch of large intervention forces for the defense of the – lacked proper topography of sufficient manpower to commit troops along empire’s periphery.
• Depended on intelligence not much forthcoming from the Muslims and assumed civilian population could take cover in secure places – namely walled towns, rough terrain, or terrain with adequate cover for hiding from invaders.
• Byzantines prepared in Syria and Palestine to confront small-scale penetrations of mobile garrisons of local troops under duces – local Arab allies did most of the patrolling and fighting.  Best defences for large-scale penetrations near Mesopotamia – lesser extent Armenia – Muslim strategy and operations well suited to this.
• B’s attempt to use assassination, kidnaps and deception to reinforce enfeebled and broken defence in depth. – used Arabs near border and best defences kept far in the rear – probably accounted for survival of a least part of the Byzantine empire.

Other Notes in this Category

1. army – its size and effectiveness for the defense of the eastern borders
2. Birth of the Islamic State
3. Byzantine authority and the nomads – divergent views
4. Byzantine reliance on arab military resistance
5. Byzantium and the early islamic conquests
6. Caliphate of ali – 656 – 661
7. Conquest and division in the time of the rashidun caliphs
8. Difficulty in devising defence for Syria
9. Elements of Failure and Endurance
10. End of the Ancient Economy
11. Foundation of the marwand caliphate and the achievemnet of ‘abd al-malik
12. Islamic conquests
13. Limitations defense-in-depth strategy
14. Military leadership of heraclius
15. relevance of recent war with persia
16. Richard n. frye – arab conquests in iran
17. State of strategy and warfare
18. The matric of the muslim world:
19. The umayyad caliphate
20. Umar and the early islamic conquests – 634 – 644
21. Whittow – making of byzantium

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