Kamis, 06 April 2017

The Making of Mass Warfare 1789-1918

A social revolution, a technological episode, and a mirror of the modern age. Military history as a discipline is not generally comfortable with syncretic overviews. Two recent examples: The hypothesis of a distinctively “Western way of war” has become more a target than a model, while the concept of “military revolution” has become an academicians’ …

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