The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814Cambridge University Press, 31. jan. 2005 - 232 sider This 2005 book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged against Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resources became the method early Americans employed and, ultimately, defined their military heritage. The sanguinary story of the American conquest of the Indian peoples east of the Mississippi River helps demonstrate how early Americans embraced warfare shaped by extravagant violence and focused on conquest. Grenier provides a major revision in understanding the place of warfare directed on noncombatants in the American military tradition, and his conclusions are relevant to understand US 'special operations' in the War on Terror. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The First Way of Wars Origins in Colonial America | 16 |
The First Way of War in the North American Wars of King George II 17391755 | 53 |
Continental and British Petite Guerre circa 1750 | 87 |
The First Way of War in the Seven Years War 17541763 | 115 |
The First Way of War in the Era of the American Revolution | 146 |
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Side vi - Mind, none of us would feel exactly like this. What saves us is efficiency — the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration was merely a squeeze, and nothing more, I suspect.
Side vi - The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only.
Side vi - It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind—as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness. The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.