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How authors saw the nexus between the use of military force and political ends from Classical Antiquity to the present, factoring in changes in technology, political, social, and economic contexts. It shows also how ideas from land warfare or maritime strategy influenced theories of the use of air power and then of nuclear weapons.
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You'd be surprised how many ideas attributed to the 19th and 20th centuries can be found hundreds of years earlier...
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This page is a summary of: The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present . By Beatrice Heuser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xiv+578. $99.00 (cloth); $37.99 (paper); $30.00 (Mobipocket eBook); $30.00 (Adobe eBook Reader). , The Journal of Modern History, September 2012, University of Chicago Press,
DOI: 10.1086/666026.
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