The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Warfare
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Название: The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Warfare
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Автор: Sturgeon A.
Год выпуска: 2012
Формат: PDF
Размер: 56 mb
ISBN: 241078490717
Язык: Русский
СКАЧАТЬ The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Warfare БЕСПЛАТНО EPUB - DOC - DJVU - RTF - PDFОписание: "It is well that war is so terrible — we would grow too fond of it," wrote the great Confederate general Robert E. Lee in 1862, thus neatly encapsulating the two conflicting emotions that war has always stirred in the human breast: repulsion and fascination.War has always been with us as a violent method of resolving disputes. The earliest communities fought each other for control of food and land. But war in its strictest definition is the state of armed conflict between nations or states, or between groups within the same state (otherwise known as civil war). The first recorded wars between organized armies were fought by the city-states of Sumer in the third millennium bce. Since then, states have habitually used war as a means of achieving their political ends when all peaceful options have been exhausted. War, according to the Prussian military theorist Clausewitz, "is nothing but the continuation of politics by other means."
Scarcely a generation passes in any nation without some exposure to war. Between 1500 bce and 1860 ce there were in the known world, on average, thirteen years of war to every one year of peace. Virtually all frontiers between nations, races, and religions have been established by wars, and most previous civilizations and empires have expired because of them. The history of the world is primarily the history of war.