The study of war and warfare demands careful consideration of technology, institutions, social organization, and more. But, for some, the so-called "war and society" approach increasingly included everything but explained nothing, because it all too often seemed to ignore the events on the battlefield itself. The military historians in Warfare and Culture in World History return us to the battlefield, but they do so through a deep examination of the role of culture in shaping military institutions and military choices...from the publisher.

Warfare and culture / Wayne E. Lee -- The last campaign : the Assyrian way of war and the collapse of the empire / Sarah C. Melville -- Disciplining Octavian : an aspect of Roman military culture, 44-30 BCE 50 / Lee L. Brice -- Of bureaucrats and bandits : Confucianism and anti-rebel strategy at the end of the Ming Dynasty / Kenneth M. Swope -- The battle culture of forbearance, 1660-1789 / John A. Lynn II -- Success and failure in civil war armies : clues from organizational culture / Mark Grimsley -- German military culture and the colonial war in Southwest Africa, 1904-1907 / Isabel V. Hull -- Connecting culture and the battlefield : Britain and the empire fight the hundred days / David Silbey -- The American culture of war in the age of artificial limited war / Adrian R. Lewis.