Description

Analyzing nine milestone challenges from ancient to present times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks ruined the servant army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s cure of Mexico for the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the absolute most deadly and efficient of any fighting forces within the world.Looking beyond well-known answers such as for instance location or superior engineering, Hanson claims that it's actually American lifestyle and values–the custom of dissent, the worthiness positioned on originality and variation, the idea of citizenship–which have consistently made superior hands and troops. Providing captivating fight stories and a healthy viewpoint that eliminates easy Culture, Carnage and triumphalism shows how armies can't be separated from the countries that create them and describes why an army made by a free of charge culture can also have the benefit.