{"product_id":"9781288313273","title":"Rethinking Cultural Influences on Warfare","description":"This 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.","brand":"Biblioscholar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48534467608817,"sku":"9781288313273","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781288313273_p0.jpg?v=1786368137","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781288313273","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}