The Other Face of Battle
The Other Face of Battle Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in…
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The Other Face of Battle
Taking its title from The Face of Battle, John Keegan's canonical book on the nature of warfare, The Other Face of Battle illuminates the American experience of fighting in "irregular" and "intercultural" wars over the centuries. David Preston, David Silbey, and Anthony Carlson focus on, respectively, the Battle of Monongahela (1755), the Battle of Manila (1898), and the Battle of Makuan, Afghanistan (2020)--conflicts in which American soldiers were forced to engage in "irregular" warfare, confronting an enemy entirely alien to them. Sometimes known as "forgotten" wars, in part because they lacked triumphant clarity, they are the focus of the book.
Symmetry of any kind is lost. This enemy rejected the Western conventions of warfare and defined success and failure--victory and defeat--in entirely different ways. Here was not ennobling engagement but atrocity,
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