Warfare

While there have been a large number of studies of ancient armies and fleets, there has been little scholarship on joint operations between land and naval forces in the ancient world, otherwise known as amphibious operations. This dissertation examines the initial development of…

This thesis focuses on the connections between warfare, slavery and their impacts on Eastern Yorubaland during the nineteenth century. To the extent that slavery became an integral part of the society, the connections resulted in fundamental changes in political, economic, demog…

After an introductory chapter, in which the studies of previous scholars are examined, warfare in the Latin East in the period is placed in its historical context. It involved not only crusades: there were long periods of truce when warfare was restricted to raiding expeditions,…

This dissertation explores the phenomenon of "apparitions" in the post-war context of ex-Yugoslavia. On the one hand, it interprets the experience of seeing visions, and on the other it contextualizes these sightings into a political climate in the aftermath of the war in the 19…

This study traces the enlistment of concepts and metaphors from nonlinear science (e.g. chaos and complexity theories) by the U.S. military in its attempts to cope with the perceived demands of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as an emerging post-in…

This dissertation is a social and military history of the army in Egypt under the Ptolemies (323–30 BC), the Greek rulers who succeeded Alexander the Great in Egypt. Building on approaches developed in state-formation theory, notably Mann's concept of social power (1986) that th…

This dissertation bears witness to a process of bearing witness to the war on Iraq, which began on March 20, 2003 at 5:00 a.m. Baghdad time. As an active participant and observer of the making of the World Tribunal on Iraq, of which the Istanbul session was the culmination of tw…

Horses and chariots play a dynamic role in the military and economic life of Israel during the Iron Age (1150-586 B.C.E.). Although the Assyrians, Egyptians, Arameans, and Israelites all fielded substantial chariot contingents and engaged in numerous battles, the practicalities …

The 711 Muslim invasion of Visigothic Iberia was spearheaded by an asymmetric martial paradigm known as al-ghazu , which originated in pre-Islamic Arabia. The assimilation of the ghazu and its subsequent dominance of the Iberian military culture shaped the martial ecumene of gen…