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Warfare in the Ancient World
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Warfare in the Ancient World explores how civilizations and cultures made war on the battlefields of the Near East and Europe between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia in the late fourth millenium BC and the fall of Rome.
Through a exploration of twenty-six selected battles, military historian Brian Todd Carey surveys the changing tactical relationships between the four weapon systems - heavy and light infantry and hevay and light cavalry - focusing on how shock and missile combat evolved from tentative beginnings in the Bronze Age to the highly developed military organization created by the Romans.
The art of warfare reached a very sophisticated level of development during this three millenia span. Commanders fully realized the tactical capabilities of shock and missile combat in large battlefield situations. Modern principles of war, like the primacy of the offensive, mass, and economy of force, were understood by pre-modern generals and applied on battlefields throughout the period.
Through the use of dozens of multiphase tactical maps, this fascinating introduction to the art of war during western civilization’s ancient and classical periods pulls together the primary and secondary sources and creates a powerful historical narrative. The result is a synthetic work that will be essential reading for students and armchair historians alike.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #196075 in Books
- Published on: 2005-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
Customer Reviews
Would you like to know what really happened?
Carey's book is a superbly crafted work on the ancient strategy of war, and the maps created by his previous students, Allfree and Cairns, are indispensably critical. I wish this book had been available when I took my first semester of History of Western Civilizations. I've always felt such a vague understanding of what actually transpired during certain key battles, and this book put in my grasp a clear understanding of precisely what weapons, people, strategy and consequence were witnessed by the civilizations of the western ancient world during war. This book would make an excellent supplemental text for first level Western Civ courses, especially for Military History courses. I'm anxious to read the upcoming volume II, Warfare in the Medieval World, by this team of historians and cartographers, which I understand should be available summer 2006.
Splendid Read!
I was required to read Professor Carey's "Warfare in the Ancient World" as a reader for his Ancient Military History class at the American Military University. This book proved to be a splendid companion to his class, providing me with cogent battle analysis and an outstanding overview of strategy, tactics and martial technologies over a 3,500 year period. I highly recommend this monograph to anyone wanting to understand how war was waged on the ancient battlefields of the Near East and Europe.
Ancient Warfare Described!
Professor Carey's WARFARE IN THE ANCINET WORLD does a great job exploring how civilizations and cultures made war in the period between the rise of civilization in Mesopotamia around 3000 BC and the fall of Rome fifteen hundred years ago. This was a period when warfare became sophisticated, with strategies including shock and missile tactics and involving approaches still used today. Carey's tactical maps chart the development of tactics, while the introduction to the era uses primary and secondary sources to reconstruct the history of the age. This a very strong selection for military history collections.
