War past, present & future
Offers a far-reaching assessment of military history, challenging the focus on technology and military revolution. War is placed in context, from the evolution of specialised troops in the earliest civilisations, to likely future scenarios.
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Stroud, Gloucestershire
Sutton Publishing Limited
2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The development of military organizations to 1850
- 3. The development of military organizations 1850-2000
- 4. The question of technology: the early-modern example
- 5. European overseas expansion and the military revolution 1450-1815
- 6. Politics, resources and conflict: civil wars, British and American 1639-1865
- 7. Struggles in the western 'core': counterfactual scenarios 1688-1815
- 8. Technology and Western dominance 1815-1980
- 9. Conflict today
- 10. War in the future