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Military and Conflict Between Cultures - Soldiers at the Inreface (Hardcover, New)
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For centuries Western military theory and practice focused on wars
conducted in Europe among Europeans. Wars between the European
powers and other peoples were thought to be unimportant by students
of military affairs, and wars between non-Europeans were viewed as
distant and irrelevant. Attention was focused on Great Power
confrontations, and the many "little" wars fought throughout the
globe were ignored or given short attention. As the twenty-first
century approaches and the threat of war between the superpowers
declines, our attention is drawn to conflicts between nations or
ethnic groups with vastly different cultures. The United States,
the last superpower, is divided in its motives to maintain its
giant Cold War military structure or to create a new world police
force that will react to and influence the outcome of intercultural
conflict. Brought together by James C. Bradford, these essays by
prominent military historians cover three thousand years and five
continents in treating various examples of intercultural
interaction. In his introduction, Roger Beaumont traces the
evolution from Great Power conflicts to multinational and
intercultural wars and examines in general terms the cross-cultural
dimensions of warfare that have been heretofore largely ignored by
military historians. The first two essays look at examples of
intercultural cooperation in warfare. John F. Guilmartin, Jr.,
describes the use of diverse cultural elements in armies from
Xenophon's Persians to the Hessians of the American Revolution. In
a similar vein, Dennis Showalter examines the transference of
European forms of warfare by regional military groups. Along the
military frontier of the American West, Robert M. Utley finds
classic examples of simple cultures at odds with a technologically
complex one. John W. Bailey presents the diverse styles of American
commanders in the post-Civil War West and deals with the dichotomy
between civilizing mission and uncivilized methods. Richard W.
Slatta reveals patterns in Argentina's military and cultural
subjection of its Indians and gauchos over three centuries. Douglas
Porch studies the strategy and tactics employed by France in its
conquest of northwestern Africa. Carol Morris Petillo examines the
American involvement in the Philippines, arguing that a
half-century of military imperialism was a shaping experience for a
new generation of military professionals. Finally, Robin Higham
closes the book with a wide-ranging and impressionistic essay on
intercultural command. Scholars of military history as well as the
layperson interested in cross-cultural issues and the study of
warfare will find The Military and Conflict between Cultures to be
a thought provoking collection of essays on an important topic--one
which has become increasingly significant in the post-Cold War era
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