Clausewitz, Keegan, and the Big History of Warfare

As a social phenomenon, is war subordinate to politics, as Carl von Clausewitz argued in the early nineteenth century, or, instead, is it the product of an instinctive ‘warrior culture’, common to all peoples and times and beyond politics, as John Keegan suggested in the late twentieth? Should we em...

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Main Authors: Daniel Barreiros, Daniel Ribera Vainfas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Big History Association 2020-03-01
Series:Journal of Big History
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Online Access:https://jbh.journals.villanova.edu/index.php/JBH/article/view/2507