HI126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Carl Von Clausewitz, Communes Of France, Chauvinism
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War is organized violence between groups belonging to different political units. Purpose of war is to force one side to submit to the other"s will. Social substitutability: means that any member of opposing community (family, tribe, nation) War is a mere continuation of politics by other means - carl von clausewitz on war. Warfare is an unpopular subject today for understandable reasons. The history of warfare is too often concerned with romantic glori cation of individual military leaders and the minute of their martial exploits - michael mallet. A dominant school of interpretation in the academic study of war argues that there is a. Western way of war that has over the centuries distinguished the west (europe/ america) from the rest of the world. Geoffrey parker, author of our main text belongs to this school. Western way of war is responsible for the wests domination of the world over the last few centuries.
