Primitive warfare is simply total war conducted with very limited means. He also looks at nonstate societies of more recent times where we can name the tribes and peoples and their propensity for warfare.

Guerrilla warfare merely incorporates manpower and supply capacities on a civilized scale and uses more up-to-date weaponry. Keeley conducts an investigation of the archaeological evidence for prehistoric violence, including murder and massacre as well as war. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback. In modern guerrilla warfare, when superior primitive tactics are wedded to even very limited civilized logistics, more completely civilized adversaries are very commonly discomfited. See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Keeley, Lawrence H. It was not the much discussed and theatrical weaponry, discipline, and tactical techniques that gave soldiers their eventual triumphs, but their mastery of the rather pedestrian arcana of logistics. “It was the concentration of resources and power in hierarchical political organizations, the millions of cannon-fodder citizens subject to their disposal, the galleon, compass and sextant, the ox-wagon, steam engine, railroads, and factory production, as well as smallpox, measles, and weeds, that allowed the nations of western Europe to gain ascendancy over the uncivilized world during the past half-millennium.

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