… 80%), with limited arable land located in the lower … North Korea and Manchuria, was known for its military prowess … diplomacy. The Joseon dynasty was the last and longest-lived …
… culture, he critiques the undesirable (and escapable) …
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Samuel P. Huntington
The Book of Five Rings
… Written in 1645, Musashi was a Samurai in Japan’s Edo … before his death describing his ‘ways’. One of few well known East … content of the time was considerably different, many of the …
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Miyamoto Musashi
On Infantry
… the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and the Arab-Israeli Wars. The authors …
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John A. English and Bruce I. Gudmundsson
Defeat into Victory
… A memoir of the war in Burma and India by the … a commander’s responsibilities in war’. His modest and deeply human memoirs succeed in this admirably, and it remains one of the …
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Field Marshal Sir William Slim
Apocalypse Now (1979)
… to eliminate a ‘rogue’ colonel waging his own war in-country. Filled with memorable lines and scenes (‘I love …
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Francis Ford Coppola
Thin Red Line (1998)
… the competition between peace and war. Director Terrence Malick … and brings authenticity and vulnerability to some of the most … and confronts the reality of war. Thin Red Line was nominated …
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Terrence Malick
War: the lethal custom
… on a topic as vast and varied as ‘war’, Gwynne Dwyer has done an admirable job of writing a book about the custom of war, placing it within historical …
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Gwynne Dyer
War and the Cultural Turn
… examines the cultural dynamics of warfare. He argues that culture, … used with discrimination and an awareness of the dangers of … the place of ‘technology’ as a ‘grab-all’ explanation that may not, …
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Jeremy Black
Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
… In war, command is about forging and … command since the Second World War through a series of eleven … decision-making remains inseparable from civilian priorities, …
