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An edition of A History of Warfare (1993)

A History of Warfare

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In this encyclopedically learned and immensely gripping book, one of our foremost military historians demolishes the famous dictum that war is the continuation of policy by other means. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of a sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, only to leave Saddam himself securely in power?

Analyzing centuries of conflict —in societies from the Amazon to the Balkans, waged by nomadic horsemen, peasant guerrillas, and superbly disciplined regiments— John Keegan unveils the deepest motive behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed. A History of Warfare is a masterpiece of military scholarship, irresistible in its style and terrifying in its implications.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
432

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A History of Warfare
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A history of warfare
1994, Random House, Vintage Books
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1994, Pimlico
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1994, Vintage Books
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1993, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
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1993, Hutchinson
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1993, Key Porter Books
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1993, Alfred A. Knopf
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Edition Notes

Includes illustrations, bibliographical references (p. 411-417) and index.

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Toronto

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355/.009
Library of Congress
U27 .K38 1993

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 432 p. :
Number of pages
432
Dimensions
21 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL16439713M
Internet Archive
historyofwarfare0000keeg_v4d3
ISBN 10
0394280636
Library Thing
14131
Goodreads
2041495

Work Description

In A History of Warfare, Keegan outlines the development and limitations of warfare from prehistory to the modern era. It looks at various topics, including the use of horses, logistics, and "fire". One key concept put forward is that war is inherently cultural. In the introduction, he rigorously denounces the idiom "war is a continuation of policy by other means", rejecting on its face "Clausewitzian" ideas

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