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Carnage and Culture:
Landmark battles in the rise of Western Culture

by Victor Davis Hanson

Scholarly and fascinating! Great examination of how free citizen soldiers and western values create superior armies.

From book description: "Through vivid depictions of historic battles, Victor Davis Hanson reveals the connection between the West’s superiority on the battlefield and its rise to world dominance. Why have Western values triumphed? Why are Western ideas and practices spreading unopposed throughout the globe? In this sweeping and ambitious work of military and cultural history, Victor Davis Hanson convincingly argues that it all comes down to the Western knack for killing. ... Hanson delineates the characteristics of successful armies–including individual initiative, superior organization and discipline, access to matchless weapons, and tactical adaptation and flexibility. Then he shows how these characteristics develop and flourish as a result of such traditional Western institutions and ideals as consensual government, free inquiry and innovative enterprise, rationalism, and the value placed on freedom and individualism."

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