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The Culture of War (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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The Culture of War (Hardcover, Uk Ed.)
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A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy,
Martin van Creveld argues in The Culture of War that there is much
more to war than just soldiers killing one another. War has always
been a deeply fascinating subject. Fighting itself can be a source
of great, perhaps even the greatest, joy - and out of this joy and
fascination an entire culture has grown - from the war paint of
tribal warriors to today's 'tiger suits', from Julius Caesar's red
cloak to Douglas McArthur's pipe, from the decorative shields of
ancient Greece to aircraft nose art, and from the invention of
chess around AD 600 to cyber era combat simulators. The culture of
war has had its own traditions, laws, rituals, music, art,
literature, and monuments since the beginning of civilisation.
Through the ages, the culture of war has usually been highly
esteemed. Not so in many countries today, which tend either to mock
it ('military intelligence is to intelligence what military music
is to music') or to denounce it as 'militaristic'. This provocative
book sets out to show how wrongheaded, and even dangerous, such
attitudes are. The Culture of War argues that men and women today,
contrary to the hopes of some, are just as fascinated by war as
they have been in the past. A military that has lost touch with the
culture of war is doomed not merely to defeat but to
disintegration. Innovative, authoritative, and riveting, The
Culture of War is a major work done by one of the world's greatest
and most insightful military historians.
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