The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
... military campaigns in the sixteenth and seventeenth centu- ries were carried out in the manner which characterized , say , the Normandy invasion of 1944. As the preceding analysis should have demonstrated , the military machines of ...
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... Military Effectiveness , vol . 2 . 102. Adamthwaite , France and the Coming of the Second World War , p . 166 ; Gorce , French Army : A Military - Political History , pp . 270ff ; Young , " French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany ...
... Military Effectiveness , vol . 2 . 102. Adamthwaite , France and the Coming of the Second World War , p . 166 ; Gorce , French Army : A Military - Political History , pp . 270ff ; Young , " French Military Intelligence and Nazi Germany ...
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... Military Spending : Assessing the Numbers Game , " International Security , vol . 6 , no . 4 ( Spring 1982 ) , pp ... Military Balance 1985-86 , pp . 17-20 ; Holzman , " Soviet Military Spending , " passim ; W. T. Lee , The Estimation of ...
... Military Spending : Assessing the Numbers Game , " International Security , vol . 6 , no . 4 ( Spring 1982 ) , pp ... Military Balance 1985-86 , pp . 17-20 ; Holzman , " Soviet Military Spending , " passim ; W. T. Lee , The Estimation of ...
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