About the Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Maps and Figures vii
4. Preface to the Second Edition ix
5. 1. Warfare and Culture 1
6. 2. The Last Campaign: The Assyrian Way of War and the Collapse of the Empire 19
7. 3. Disciplining Octavian: A Case Study of Roman Military Culture, 44– 30 BCE 44
8. 4. Herding the Enemy: Culture in Nomadic Warfare 72
9. 5. How Spanish Was the Spanish Conquest? Reexamining Spanish Success in the New World 101
10. 6. Of Bureaucrats and Bandits: Confucianism and Antirebel Strategy at the End of the Ming Dynasty 123
11. 7. The Battle Culture of Forbearance, 1660– 1789 154
12. 8. Success and Failure in Civil War Armies: Clues from Organizational Culture 182
13. 9. Imagining African Warfare: War Games and Military Cultures in German East Africa 212
14. 10. German Military Culture and the Colonial War in Southwest Africa, 1904– 1907 240
15. 11. Connecting Culture and the Battlefield: Britain and the Empire Fight the Hundred Days 266
16. 12. The American Culture of War in the Age of Artificial Limited War 289
17. About the Contributors 335
18. Index 339