Traces nine landmark battles from Salamis to the Tet Offensive to argue that Western armies have consistently outfought non-Western forces due to cultural factors: individualism, capitalism, civic militarism, freedom, and rational inquiry.
Provides the most sustained modern argument for Western military exceptionalism rooted in cultural rather than purely technological factors; synthesizes ancient and modern military history under a single civilizational thesis.
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