Dictionary of Wars

Broadly defining war to mean “an overt, armed conflict carried on between nations or states (international war) or between parties, factions, or people in the same state (civil war)”, Kohn makes no effort to pontificate on the political, social, or cultural causes and results of armed conflicts, and concentrates primarily on military events, tacitly acknowledging that no more was realistically possible in a single‐volume dictionary. He allows himself a few lines of analysis of why wars erupt:

In addition to these types of conflict, he also deals with conquests, invasions, sieges, massacres, raids, and mutinies.

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