Sherry makes clear that militarization is not militarism, nor is it quite the same as war. The effect has the force of revelation. Michael Mann believes men and women cannot trade, vote, or believe in God without fighting. Whether he writes about the battle of Marathon or the armies of Charles I, he is concerned with who reports to whom, the links between generals and priests, the communications between those who go to war and those who stay at home. The social fabric, for Mann, is a cloth continually torn apart and rewoven.
War is the activity that tightens the weave.
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