Battle; a history of combat and culture, rev. ed. (reprint, 2003).0813333717 Battle; a history of combat and culture, rev. ed. (reprint, 2003) Lynn, John A. Westview Press 2004 431 pages $16.95 Paperback U21 Applying the basic concerns of the new cultural history to the study of war, Lynn (history, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) presents a series of case studies on the feedback relationship between discourse on battle and its conduct. His essays explore different aspects of this basic topic in essays that temporally range from the city-states of classical Greece Classical Greece, the classical period of Ancient Greece, corresponds to most of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C. (i.e. from the fall of the Athenian tyranny in 510 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC). to Egyptian maneuver warfare Maneuver warfare, also spelled manoeuvre warfare, is the term used by military theorists for a concept of warfare that advocates attempting to defeat an adversary by incapacitating their decision-making through shock and disruption brought about by movement. from 1948-1967 and geographically range from Chinese and South Asian discourses on war to military practices of the ancien regime an·cien ré·gime n. 1. The political and social system that existed in France before the Revolution of 1789. 2. pl. an·ciens ré·gimes A sociopolitical or other system that no longer exists. of France. In the context of his overriding argument that the way militaries think is the most fundamental element of effectiveness, he adds an epilogue on President Bush's "War on Terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act ." This is a paperbound pa·per·bound adj. Bound in paper; paperback. reprint of a work first published in 2003. ([c] 2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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