War and society

Polity

2016

vii, 224 p.

Political sociology series

Contents: chapter 1: The Nature of War ; Violence and Aggression ; War as Organized Violence ; A Paradox of War: Organization and Anarchy ; War as a Human Construct ; The Causes of War ; Explaining War ; chapter 2: War of the Warrior ; The Horror of Battle ; Brutality Making Warriors ; Military Values ; Duty and Discipline ; chapter 3: War of Armies ; Origins of Battle The Phalanx, the Fleet, and the Legion The Return of the Horse Military Revolution: Gunpowder ; The Birth of Total War: Napoleon’s Revolution and the American Civil War A Century of War ; Explaining the Progress of War ; chapter 4: War of Societies ; Conquest ; Genocide ; Strategic Bombing Nuclear Armageddon ; chapter 5: How Wars Build ; Wars and Big Outcomes Militaries and the Individual ; chapter 6: War and Society in the Twenty-First century ; The End of Empires ; The Limits of Firepower: Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq Who Will Serve? The Changing Demographics of the Military Conclusion References

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