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Paperback. Condition: Good. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia. …

Paperback. Condition: Good. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia. …

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Is there a 'Western way of war' which pursues battles of annihilation and single-minded military victory? Is warfare on a path to ever greater destructive force? This magisterial account answers these questions by tracing the history of Western thinking about strategy - the employment of military force as a political instrument - from antiquity to the present day. Assessing sources from Vegetius to contemporary America, and with a particular focus on strategy since the Napoleonic Wars, Beatrice Heuser explores the evolution of strategic thought, the social institutions, norms and patterns of behaviour within which it operates, the policies that guide it and the cultures that influence it. Ranging across technology and warfare, total warfare and small wars as well as land, sea, air and nuclear warfare, she demonstrates that warfare and strategic thinking have fluctuated wildly in their aims, intensity, limitations and excesses over the past two millennia. …

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Condition: New. 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. A comprehensive 2010 survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Num Pages: 591 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 838. Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present. 592 pages, illustrations. A comprehensive 2010 survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 28. Weight: 934. . . . . . …

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Condition: New. 2010. 1st Edition. Paperback. A comprehensive 2010 survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Num Pages: 591 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 838. Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present. 592 pages, illustrations. A comprehensive 2010 survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Dimension: 225 x 154 x 28. Weight: 934. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Condition: New. A comprehensive survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Num Pages: 594 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 231 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1008. . 2010. hardcover. . . . .…

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Condition: New. A comprehensive survey of the development of strategic thought over two millennia, ranging across land, sea, air and nuclear warfare. Num Pages: 594 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBW; JPS; JWK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 159 x 231 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1008. . 2010. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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