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The Origins of Military Thought: From the Enlightenment to Clausewitz

Oxford University Press USA (1989)

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The Rhetoric of Combat: Greek Military Theory and Roman Culture in Julius Caesar's Battle Descriptions.J. E. Lendon - 1999 - Classical Antiquity 18 (2):273-329.details Descriptions of battles in ancient authors are not mirrors of reality, however dim and badly cracked, but are a form of literary production in which the real events depicted are filtered through the literary, intellectual, and cultural assumptions of the author. By comparing the battle descriptions of Julius Caesar to those of Xenophon and Polybius this paper attempts to place those battle descriptions in their intellectual and cultural context. Here Caesar appears as a military intellectual engaged in controversies with experts (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The Rise and Fall of Military Technology.Martin Van Creveld - 1994 - Science in Context 7 (2):327-351.details The ArgumentThis paper is divided into four parts. Part I is a conventional, if necessarily very brief description of the way in which military technology and armed force reinforced each other from about 1500 until 1945. Part II examines the period between 1945 and the present; it argues that what most people saw as unprece-dentedly rapid military-technological progress did in fact constitute the onset of overkill and degeneration. Part III explains how, obscured and in part protected by military-technological progress, low-intensity (...) Download Export citation Bookmark

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