Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.42 (819 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813333725 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 464 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Classical Greece, he argues, sought decisive battle because of its particular values emphasizing individual worth and independence, while in ancient India and China, the dominant values emphasized deception and diplomacy. . Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc. Medieval Europe balanced a brutal reality of highly destructive mutual raiding with an artificial form of war in the tournament and an idealized form in the crusade. Similarly, 19th-century Europe's concept of the decisive battle, argues Lynn (The Wars of Louis XIV), was influenced more by a Romantic high culture than by specifically military factors such as weapons systems or mass armies. Even the U.S.-Japanese conflict from 1941 to 1945, Lynn contends, was shaped by a profound contrast in military cultures, one emphasizing survival and the other self-immolation. The European wars of the 18th century were defined by style
Carl von Clausewitz proclaimed that war is politics, but even more basically, war is culture. Drawing its examples from Europe, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and America, John A. The author examines the relationship between the real and the ideal, arguing that feedback between the two follows certain discernable paths. In battle, ideas can be more far more important than bullets or bombs. Lynn challenges the belief that technology has been the dominant influence on combat from ancient times to the present day. After considering history, Lynn finally asks how the knowledge gained might illuminate our understanding of the war on terrorism.. Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the conduct of warfare. The hard reality of armed conflict is formed by - and, in turn, forms - a culture's values, assumptions, and expectations about fighting. Battle rejects the currently fashionable notion of a "Western way of warfare" and replaces it with mor
"Thoughtful" according to R. Albin. This very good book is devoted to the ways that larger culture influences how different societies wage war. Lynn presents a series of essays looking at how classical Greece, ancient China, Enlightenment Europe, and others waged war and the ways warmaking reflects important cultural features. Lynn thoughtfully analyzes bo. A Cultural view of Military History John Matlock A very interesting discourse on the culture of warfare. He brings an interesting point of view to the table regarding how our culture determines the way we go to war. There has been some discussion on a 'western' way of going to war. And his analysis begins with the Greeks first defining the western way. ==From the Greek. "A Brilliant Book and an Alternative (and Better) Analysis of the Subject" according to The Baron. Better than who? Certainly better than Victor Hanson; I have no complaint with Hanson being a classicist jumping over to military history; I don't even begrudge him using military history to work out his psychological problems. What I mind is that his theory is ever-changing and never completely opens itself to discussio
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.. John A