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Croatia --- -History --- Croatia -History --- History. --- 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.

BATTLES--HISTORY --- MILITARY 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. 

TALIBAN--HISTORY --- AFGHANISTAN--HISTORY

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