Waging war without warriors?: the changing culture of military conflict

"In the past, posits Christopher Coker, wars were all-encompassing; they were a test not only of individual bravery but of an entire community's will to survive. In the West today, in contrast, wars are tools of foreign policy, not intrinsic to the values of a society - they are instrument...

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1. Verfasser: Coker, Christopher 1953- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boulder, Colo. [u.a.] Lynne Rienner 2002
Ausgabe:1. publ.
Schriftenreihe:IISS studies in international security
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Zusammenfassung:"In the past, posits Christopher Coker, wars were all-encompassing; they were a test not only of individual bravery but of an entire community's will to survive. In the West today, in contrast, wars are tools of foreign policy, not intrinsic to the values of a society - they are instrumental rather than existential. The clash between these two "cultures of war" can be seen starkly in the recent struggle in Afghanistan." "Coker offers both a history of martial cultures and an analysis of how these are now changing. He locates the origins of the Western way of war in ancient Greece, in the heroic ideals of Homer's Iliad. He then traces the development of this warrior spirit, moving from Rome's systemization of violence to encounters with such alternative ways of war as Sun Tzu's, the Islamic tradition, and Japan's kamikaze actions during World War II. This trajectory, he finds, ends in a crucial contemporary fault line: for the first time in history, war is no longer considered humankind's most revealing behavior." "What does this mean for the future? Coker argues that tomorrow's combatants will be technicians and even machines, divorced emotionally from the battlefield. He elegantly explores the significance of an evolving culture of war devoid of the figure of the heroic warrior."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Literaturverz. S. 213-218
Beschreibung:VII, 223 S.
ISBN:1588261301

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