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The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History

Author: Philip Bobbitt
ISBN: 978-0385721387
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Extended: LTCOL, MAJ, WO1
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This is a work of panoramic scope that examines the interplay of technological and social change, warfare and shifts in epochal constitutional orders. Bobbitt applies Clausewitz’s insight as to the intimate connection between politics and warfare and examines the evolution of the liberal democratic constitutional order that prevails in much of the West today. 

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