The Origins of Western Warfare
Subtitle: Militarism and Morality in the Ancient World (History & Warfare)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: January 1, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780813333922
Subjects: History; Land forces & warfare; Military - General; History - Military / War; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Ancient World; Military Science; History / Military / General; Military art and science; Technology-Military Science; Military - Other
First sentence: In its basic meaning, " " (polemos, bellum, guerra, guerre, Krieg, and so on) is understood to be a specific institutionalized form of human conflict, whose outlines are so familiar that premodern writers on the subject rarely bothered to define it.