The crusader strategy : defending the Holy Land, 1099-1187 /
A look at the Crusaders, which shows how they pursued long-term plans and clear strategic goals. Medieval states, and particularly Crusader societies, often have been considered brutish and culturally isolated. It seems unlikely that they could develop 'strategy' in any meaningful sense. H...
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New Haven, Connecticut :
Yale University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Strategy in a medieval state: do fish need bicycles?
- Prelude: a time before strategy?
- The coastal strategy: 1099-1124
- The hinterland strategy: 1125-1153
- The Ascalon strategy: 1125-1153
- Interlude: the strategy of repression?
- The Egyptian strategy: 1154-1169
- The frontier strategy: 1170-1187
- Reflections.