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I: Analyzing Warfare 1 Why Study Military Matters? 2 Eros and Mars: The Nature of Humankind or, Making Love and War 3 The Search for Fundamental Truths about War: Sun Tzu, Kautilya, Thucydides, Jomini, Clausewitz, and Other Military Thinkers and Students of War 4 Geopolitics and the Long Shadow of Geography 5 The Template of Mars Superior Weapons and Technological Entrepreneurship Superior Discipline Sustained but Controlled Ruthlessness Receptivity to Military and Integrative Innovation The Ability and Willingness to Protect Capital from People and Rulers The Centrality of Superior Will The Belief That There Will Always Be Another War 6 The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb or, Hiroshima as Seen through the Lens of Mars 7 Mars Is a Jealous God, Part 1: The Lessons of Iraq War I or, Clausewitz Vindicated-For the Last Time? 8 Is the Template Obsolete in the Face of Insurgencies? Theoreticians and PractitionersĢ3 41 47 48 51 55 64 68 70 74 79 83 91 92 You are the purpose, the inspiration and the reward. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992.Īfter 50 years of teaching, this work is dedicated to all the students of Tufts, Dartmouth, Vassar, and especially Bowdoin who have enriched my life so deeply over these wonderful years.

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The War Trilogy Volume I: Winning at War Volume II: War Wisdom Volume III: Understanding War

Understanding history a primer of historical method pdf