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Argues that the seventeenth century was the first in which battles were waged, rather than raids and seiges, and discusses war's effectiveness as an extension of state policy
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"One of the most interesting, important, and ambitious books about the conduct, and perhaps the ultimate futility, of war." —Gunther E. Rothenberg"[A] highly scholarly and wonderfully absorbing study." —John Bayley, The London Review of Books"What Russell F. Weigley writes, the rest of us read. The Age of Battles is a persuasive reminder that even in the age of ‘rational’ warfare, one can honestly wonder why war seemed an unavoidable policy choice." —Allan R. Millett, The Journal of American History
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