The History Press

and throughout all

childhood friends, although

almost brotherly love

civil war, the execution

Andy Marshall, the head of Net Assessment and a man who took a keen interest in all sorts of theoretical problems.

what the study of military history can teach us in respect to our present-day problems;

what lessons one could, and could not, draw from it; how to go about doing so; and so on.

Next, I shifted to the place of war in human affairs in general. After all, war does not on its own stand.

Rather, it is inextricably linked to politics, economics, social affairs, culture, religion, and what not.

All form part of an infinitely complex net