Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
Autor John A. Lynnen Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 noi 2004
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Battle:
A
History
of
Combat
and
Culturespans
the
globe
and
the
centuries
to
explore
the
way
ideas
shape
the
conduct
of
warfare.
Drawing
its
examples
from
Europe,
the
Middle
East,
South
Asia,
East
Asia,
and
America,
John
A.
Lynn
challenges
the
belief
that
technology
has
been
the
dominant
influence
on
combat
from
ancient
times
to
the
present
day.
In
battle,
ideas
can
be
more
far
more
important
than
bullets
or
bombs.
Carl
von
Clausewitz
proclaimed
that
war
is
politics,
but
even
more
basically,
war
is
culture.
The
hard
reality
of
armed
conflict
is
formed
by
-
and,
in
turn,
forms
-
a
culture's
values,
assumptions,
and
expectations
about
fighting.
The
author
examines
the
relationship
between
the
real
and
the
ideal,
arguing
that
feedback
between
the
two
follows
certain
discernable
paths.
Battle
rejects
the
currently
fashionable
notion
of
a
"Western
way
of
warfare"
and
replaces
it
with
more
nuanced
concepts
of
varied
and
evolving
cultural
patterns
of
combat.
After
considering
history,
Lynn
finally
asks
how
the
knowledge
gained
might
illuminate
our
understanding
of
the
war
on
terrorism.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813333724
ISBN-10: 0813333725
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 157 x 231 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:Revised and Upd
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
ISBN-10: 0813333725
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 157 x 231 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.62 kg
Ediția:Revised and Upd
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books
Notă biografică
John
A.
Lynn,
an
expert
on
seventeenth-
and
eighteenth-century
warfare
professor,
is
a
professor
of
history
at
the
University
of
Illinois
at
Urbana-Champaign
and
an
adjunct
professor
at
Ohio
State
University.
He
lives
in
Champaign,
Illinois.
Premii
- Society of Midland Authors Award Nominee, 2004