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Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but it is the ideas behind when, where, and how to use them that make them effective. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind warfare in strictly rational terms, but over the past few decades, a stronger focus has been placed o...

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Main Authors: Brice, Lee L. (Author), Grimsley, Mark (Author), Hull, Isabel V. (Author), Lee, Wayne E., 1965- (Author, Editor), Lewis, Adrian R. (Author), Lynn, John A. (John Albert), 1943- (Author), May, Timothy Michael (Author), Melville, Sarah C. (Sarah Chamberlin) (Author), Moyd, Michelle R., 1968- (Author), Silbey, David (Author), Swope, Kenneth, 1969- (Author), Wood, James B., 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2020]
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Military art and science > History.
War and society > History.
Political culture > History.
Military history.
Table of Contents:
  • Warfare and culture / Wayne E. Lee
  • Last campaign : the Assyrian way of war and the collapse of the empire / Sarah C. Melville
  • Disciplining Octavian : a case study of Roman military culture, 44-30 BCE / Lee L. Brice
  • Herding the enemy: culture in nomadic warfare / Timothy May
  • How Spanish was the Spanish Conquest? Reexamining Spanish success in the new world / James B. Wood
  • Of bureaucrats and bandits : Confucianism and anti-rebel strategy at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Kenneth M. Swope
  • Battle culture of forbearance, 1660-1789 / John A. Lynn II
  • Success and failure in civil war armies : clues from organizational culture / Mark Grimsley
  • Imagining African warfare: war games and millitary cultures in German East Africa / Michelle Moyd
  • German military culture and the colonial war in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 / Isabel V. Hull
  • Connecting culture and the battlefield : Britain and the empire fight the hundred days / David Silbey
  • American culture of war in the age of artificial limited war / Adrian R. Lewis.