A history of warfare /
Keegan, John, 1934-2012.
A history of warfare / John Keegan. - 1st Vintage books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1994. - xvi, 432 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-417) and index.
War in human history -- Interlude : limitations on warmaking -- Stone -- Interlude : fortification -- Flesh -- Interlude : armies -- Iron -- Interlude : logistics and supply -- Fire.
In this ... book, [the author] demolishes the famous dictum that war is the continuation of policy by other means. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of a sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, only to leave Saddam himself securely in power? Analyzing centuries of conflict ... [he] unveils the deepest motives behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed.-Back cover.
0679730826 9780679730828 0394588010 9780394588018
93014884
Military art and science--History.
Military art and science.
Geschichte
Geschichte.
History.
U27 / .K44 1994
355/.009
A history of warfare / John Keegan. - 1st Vintage books ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1994. - xvi, 432 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
Originally published: London : Hutchinson, 1993.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-417) and index.
War in human history -- Interlude : limitations on warmaking -- Stone -- Interlude : fortification -- Flesh -- Interlude : armies -- Iron -- Interlude : logistics and supply -- Fire.
In this ... book, [the author] demolishes the famous dictum that war is the continuation of policy by other means. On Easter Island, for example, rival factions exterminated one another in a ceaseless competition for the egg of a sooty tern. The Aztecs seem to have fought for nothing more than the captives that they slaughtered by the thousands. And what policy could possibly have informed the Gulf War, in which the United States and its allies destroyed the army of Saddam Hussein, only to leave Saddam himself securely in power? Analyzing centuries of conflict ... [he] unveils the deepest motives behind humanity's penchant for mass bloodshed.-Back cover.
0679730826 9780679730828 0394588010 9780394588018
93014884
Military art and science--History.
Military art and science.
Geschichte
Geschichte.
History.
U27 / .K44 1994
355/.009