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- Uttwak's strategist Plan from the top grand strategy military installation strategically planned. also from Diocletian onwards that a mobile field army to back up Roman territory recently challenged that there was at different orthodoxy in the East. Different view diversion between theory and practice and practice and aims.
- Was it entirely defensive? Scholars have pointed out few emperors ever thought of trying to defeat or occupy foreign territory far more concerned with prestige, internal security and policing border areas New different conception of relation between nomadic and settled groups.
- Were inner defensive roads and measures really so? Too modern an approach, or are they internal structures?
- Persian occupied by proxy Eastern provinces for 15 years cumulative effects of previous decades of warfare between Byzantium and Persia lay a large role in explaining the ease of Islamic conquests.
- Standard view of a rigid defensive system can no longer be maintained history of region far from static Nabatean Empires decline, creation of the province of Arabia 106 had profound economic and cultural consequences semi-nomadic Arab tribes who from 4th century onwards used by both empires as military allies.
- Central role in security of borderlands, paid to do so by patrons. Depending on tribal groupings at the expense regular military investment following practices similar to West a century earlier. Of course policies that could rebound on the government
- Scarcity of Eastern manpower in 540s during Chosroes I invasion. Arab federates not paid and legionary forces withdrawn from south-east Palestine weakening resistance to Muslims together with weakening Persian invasions explains why Arabs get in so easily.
- Eastern provinces shared external threat and internal fragmentation. Significant changes in urban and rural settlement Christianisation, interpenetration of Greek on culture, military and fiscal needs of the state evident before the last Persian invasion of early seventh century. Near East in a ferment of change.
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