Winning at war : seven keys to military victory throughout history / Christian P. Potholm.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Description: xv, 281 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781442201309
  • 1442201304
  • 9781442201323
  • 1442201320
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 355.02 22
LOC classification:
  • U104 .P835 2010
Contents:
Introduction: The template of Mars -- Superior weapons and technology entrepreneurship -- Superior discipline -- Sustained but controlled ruthlessness -- Receptivity to military and integrative innovation -- The ability and willingness to protect capital from people and rulers -- The centrality of superior will -- The belief there will always be another war -- Applying the template : a battle -- Applying the template : a war.
Summary: "Drawing on forty years of studying and teaching war, political scientist Christian P. Potholm presents a 'template of Mars' -- seven variables that have served as predictors of military success over time and across cultures. In Winning at war, Potholm explains these variables -- technology, sustained ruthlessness, discipline, receptivity to innovation, protection of military capital from civilians and rulers, will, and the belief that there will always be another war -- and provides case studies of their implementation, from ancient battles to today'"--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The template of Mars -- Superior weapons and technology entrepreneurship -- Superior discipline -- Sustained but controlled ruthlessness -- Receptivity to military and integrative innovation -- The ability and willingness to protect capital from people and rulers -- The centrality of superior will -- The belief there will always be another war -- Applying the template : a battle -- Applying the template : a war.

"Drawing on forty years of studying and teaching war, political scientist Christian P. Potholm presents a 'template of Mars' -- seven variables that have served as predictors of military success over time and across cultures. In Winning at war, Potholm explains these variables -- technology, sustained ruthlessness, discipline, receptivity to innovation, protection of military capital from civilians and rulers, will, and the belief that there will always be another war -- and provides case studies of their implementation, from ancient battles to today'"--Jacket.

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