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13 février 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.psorbonne.39940
- isbn: 9791035100490
- eisbn: 9791035105655
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Guy Halsall, « Predatory Warfare – the Moral and the Physical », Publications de la Sorbonne, ID : 10.4000/books.psorbonne.39940
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The terms that we consider in this volume – looting, tribute paying, the taking of captives and predation – are haunted by some important assumptions. One is an implicit opposition between predation and some other type of warfare. Presumably, following usual military historical typologies, that type of war would be one based around set-piece battles. But is any sort of warfare not predatory? Also possibly implicit in our rationale is a concentration on what we might term the physical or the m...