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Croatia --- -History --- Croatia -History --- History. --- History
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AFGHANISTAN--HISTORY --- Afghanistan --- History
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La relation des 'grandes batailles' a longtemps represente un genre tres prise chez les historiens, qui s'interessaient surtout aux capitaines de legende, Alexandre le Grand, Frederic II ou Napoleon. La demarche de l'auteur est tout a fait differente. Il propose une lecture totale de la bataille, du role de l'homme de base a celui du general, de la question des armes a celle du moral, sans omettre de presenter le contexte politique, religieux et social. Ce faisant, l'auteur privilegie ce qui est au coeur de la guerre a l'echelle mondiale : le caractere foncierement heterogene des grandes confrontations militaires - en d'autres termes, le choc entre des cultures, des pays, des peuples ou des armees radicalement differents, comme le conflit entres nomades (Mongols) et sedentaires (Arabes) au VIIe siècle. La bataille de Zama (202 av. J-C.) presente quant a elle un choc entre Rome et Carthage pour le controle de la Mediterranee. A Hattin (1187), ce sont croises et musulmans qui combattent, dans le cadre des croisades. A Tenochtitlan (1521), Cortes scelle le destin de la civilisation azteque. Les batailles de Gaugameles (331 av. J.-C.), des champs Catalauniques (451), d'Ayn Jalut (1260), de Lepante (1571), de Lutzen (1632), de Borodino (1812) et de Stalingrad (1942) sont de meme envergure : ells ont faconne le monde, de l'Antiquite au XXe siècle. Ainsi, a travers onze recits d'affrontements epiques se dessine une histoire de la guerre par ses batailles memorables.
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IRAQ--HISTORY --- Iraq --- History
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TERRORISM--HISTORY --- Terrorism --- History
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How does the Taliban wage war ? How has its war changed over time ? Firstly, the movement's extraordinary military operation relies on financial backing. This volume analyses such funding. The Taliban's external sources of support include foreign governments and non-state groups, both of which have affected the Taliban's military campaigns and internal politics. Secondly, this is the first full-length study of the Taliban to acknowledge and discuss in detail the movement's polycentric character. Here not only the Quetta Shura, but also the Haqqani Network and the Taliban's other centers of power, are afforded the attention they deserve. This book is based on extensive field research, including hundreds of interviews with Taliban members at all levels of the organization, community elders in Taliban-controlled areas, and other sources. It covers the Taliban insurgency from its first manifestations in 2002 up to the Battle of Kunduz in 2015, which saw the group transition from an insurgency to a military force, and right up to its takeover of Afghanistan after the US wthdrawal in 2021.
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History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe. The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of the people who built the Western side of the Cold War. Henry Kissinger is a pivotal figure in the post-war world, and his story is in some ways typical: he failed in his most important aims and succeeded in ways he never expected. Robert Cooper's pieces together history and considers the illuminating fragments it leaves behind.
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The essential resource on strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history's most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara.
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Poland --- History --- History. --- PolandHistory. --- Poland - History
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