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The third book in Professor Christian Potholm’s war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliog
Uses four factors--energy capture per capita, organization, information technology and war-making capacity--to attempt to show which world regions were the most
The Byzantine Culture of War offers a critical approach to the study of military organisation and warfare as fundamental aspects of the East Roman society and c
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