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Bloomsbury Press
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English

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Military history, War, History, Long Now Manual for Civilization

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Military history : the orphaned discipline
Why study war?
Classical lessons and post-9/11 wars
Raw, relevant history from the 300 Spartans to the history of Thucydides
Part 2. War writing
Thalatta! Thalatta!
The old breed
The war to begin all wars
Don Juan of Austria is riding to the sea
Part 3. The postmodern meets the premodern
The end of decisive battle for now
Men make a city, not walls or ships empty of men
The American way of war : past, present, and future
Part 4. How western wars are lost and won
Your defeat, my victory
The odd couple : war and democracy
Who is the enemy?

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355.0209
Library of Congress
U27 .H378 2010

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Pagination
p. cm.

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OL23909640M
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fatherofusallwar00hans
ISBN 13
9781608191659
LCCN
2009041714
OCLC/WorldCat
456977465

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