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Examines the role of the culture in shaping military institutions and military choices

Table of Contents

List of Maps 1 Warfare and Culture Wayne E. Lee 2 The Last Campaign: The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire Sarah C. Melville 3 Disciplining Octavian: A Case Study of Roman Military Culture, 44-30 BCE Lee L. Brice 4 Of Bureaucrats and Bandits: Confucianism and Antirebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty Kenneth M. Swope 5 The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660-1789 John A. Lynn II 6 Success and Failure in Civil War Armies: Clues from Organizational Culture Mark Grimsley 7 German Military Culture and the Colonial War in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 Isabel V. Hull 8 Connecting Culture and the Battlefield: Britain and the Empire Fight the Hundred Days David Silbey 9 The American Culture of War in the Age of Artificial Limited War Adrian R. Lewis About the Contributors Index

About the Author

Wayne E. Lee is Bruce W. Carney Distinguished Professor of History at the University of North Carolina. He is author of Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History and Barbarians and Brothers: Anglo-American Warfare, 1500-1865.

Reviews

"Provides the best introduction yet published to the wide and exciting study of war and culture. Readers interested in war, culture, and their roles in global history will find here some of the best current research and writing on the topic." Michael S. Neiberg, author of Dance of the Furies "Lee Brice offers an interesting account of Roman military culture under Octavian, emphasizing, in particular, the role of discipline. Organizational culture therefore emerges as crucial to success. Kenneth Swope continues his important work on late Ming warfare and military culture, focusing on anti-rebel strategy and the problems created by simultaneous conflict with the Manchu." - Jeremy Black, War in History, January 2013