{"product_id":"rethinking-cultural-influences-on-warfare-9781288313273","title":"Rethinking Cultural Influences on Warfare","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Scott W. Horrigan\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Biblioscholar\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Biblioscholar\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monograph presents a method for military planners to operationalize an adversary's culture during conceptual planning. To present this methodology, the monograph asks the question, is a Western way of war distinctly different from a non-Western way of war. Victor Davis Hanson's description of a Western way of war is examined to develop an ordinal scaling methodology that allows cultural variables to be operationalized by a planning team prior to the onset of war. The four variables used by Hanson to describe a distinctive way of war are discipline, infantry, technology, and individualism. Through examination of participants in the Russo-Japanese War, the Korean War, and the Sino-Vietnam War, ordinal scaling reveals there is a distinctive Western way of war, but highlights the nuances of cultural influences on warfare. At best, Western and non-Western warfare are only rough categories with vague boundaries, not clear dichotomies. Western warfare may be distinctive, but a state's approach to warfare can adopt characteristics from both Western and non-Western warfare, creating nuances not recognized by Hanson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioscholar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47598837268631,"sku":"9781288313273","price":5094.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781288313273.webp?v=1775002214","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/rethinking-cultural-influences-on-warfare-9781288313273","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}