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Waging War without Warriors? - The Changing Culture of Military Conflict (Paperback)
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Waging War without Warriors? - The Changing Culture of Military Conflict (Paperback)
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Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
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In the past, posits Christopher Coker, wars were all-encompassing;
they were a test not only of individual bravery, but of an entire
community's will to survive. In the West today, in contrast, wars
are tools of foreign policy, not intrinsic to the values of a
society - they are instrumental rather than existential. The clash
between these two ""cultures of war"" can be seen starkly in the
recent struggle in Afghanistan. In this text, Coker offers both a
history of martial cultures and an analysis of how these are now
changing. He locates the origins of the Western way of war in
ancient Greece: for example, in the heroic ideals of Homer's Iliad.
He then traces the development of this warrior spirit, moving from
Rome's systemization of violence to encounters with such
alternative ways of war as Sun Tzu's, the Islamic tradition, and
Japan's kamikaze actions during World War II. This trajectory, he
finds, ends in a crucial contemporary fault line: for the first
time in history, war is no longer considered humankind's most
revealing behaviour.
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