David A. Graff
Auteur van Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900
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David A. Graff is Associate Professor of History at Kansas State University, USA. He is the author of Medieval Chinese Warfare, 300-900 (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of the Journal of Chinese Military History.
Werken van David A. Graff
The Eurasian way of war : military practice in seventh century China and Byzantium (2016) 7 exemplaren
The Cambridge History of War, Volume 2: War and the Medieval World (2020) — Redacteur — 6 exemplaren
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On a wider theoretical front, he uses this to argue against the notion of a "Western Way of War" as advocated by Hanson, Keegan, and other military historians, supposedly differentiated from non-Western traditions of war-making in emphasizing face-to-face fighting rather than evasiveness and trickery. Graff finds that Byzantines and Chinese both did plenty of each, and moreover insists that military strategy is much more responsive to conditions and less predetermined by cultural dictates than Hanson would allow.
Interesting and convincing, if decidedly niche.… (meer)