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Contents |
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Preface |
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Abbreviations |
15 |
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Chapter 1 Introduction |
16 |
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Diversity |
16 |
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Change |
18 |
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Strategic cultures |
19 |
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The intellectual context of military history |
20 |
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War-winning factors |
23 |
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The causes of war |
26 |
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Cultural assumptions |
28 |
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The naval dimension |
37 |
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Conclusion |
38 |
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Notes |
38 |
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Chapter 2 The sound of guns: military history today |
41 |
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The world of print |
42 |
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Problems with the sources |
45 |
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Weapons and battlefields |
48 |
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Television and film |
49 |
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Face of battle |
50 |
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Biography |
52 |
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The popular market |
53 |
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Memoirs and oral history |
57 |
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War and society |
64 |
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Cultural dimensions |
70 |
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Conclusion |
73 |
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Notes |
74 |
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Chapter 3 Redressing Eurocentricism |
81 |
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The case of cavalry |
83 |
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Governmental effectiveness |
86 |
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The clash of civilizations? The case of Islam |
87 |
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Dating Western success |
98 |
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Firearms and native allies |
99 |
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Sources and topics for study |
100 |
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The Orient |
103 |
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South Asia |
105 |
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Ottoman warfare |
106 |
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Africa |
107 |
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Brazil |
108 |
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Recovering non-Western warfare |
108 |
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Primitivizing the Middle Ages |
109 |
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Revising Western military history |
111 |
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Non-Western perspectives |
112 |
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Conclusions |
113 |
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Notes |
114 |
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Chapter 4 Qualifying technology |
119 |
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Non-military technology |
126 |
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The reporting of war |
127 |
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Technology, adaptation and tasking |
129 |
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The process of change |
131 |
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The perception of change |
132 |
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Technology, organization and the pursuit of victory |
134 |
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Asymmetrical warfare |
137 |
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Conclusions |
138 |
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Notes |
139 |
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Chapter 5 Setting military objectives |
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German war-making, 1866–1945 |
146 |
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Civil wars |
147 |
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Changes in tasking |
148 |
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Tasking and organization |
149 |
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Tasking and strategic culture |
152 |
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Tasking and military history |
154 |
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The USA and Europe today: different strategic cultures, clashing tasks? |
155 |
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Conclusion |
164 |
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Notes |
164 |
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Chapter 6 1500–1815 |
166 |
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A demographically reconceptualized world |
170 |
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Defining the issues |
171 |
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Naval developments |
174 |
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Key geopolitical changes |
175 |
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Multiple capability and eliciting support |
176 |
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Success and failure |
179 |
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The case study of India |
181 |
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Assessing effectiveness |
183 |
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Notes |
185 |
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Chapter 7 1775–1918 |
189 |
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Creating the past |
191 |
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Chronological boundaries |
192 |
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Which narrative? |
194 |
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The study of war |
199 |
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The market for military history |
203 |
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Commemorating war and learning lessons |
205 |
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Japan |
208 |
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History and policy |
209 |
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World War One |
210 |
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Notes |
213 |
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Chapter 8 1914–today |
216 |
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The lessons of World War One |
218 |
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Reviewing World War Two |
222 |
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Military history and politics |
234 |
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The shrinking of distance |
240 |
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Conclusions |
242 |
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Notes |
242 |
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Chapter 9 Conclusions |
247 |
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Selected bibliography |
260 |
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Index |
262 |
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