TY - JOUR AU - Rossman, Gabriel PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - War and Society JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/war-and-society SP - AB - This is not a course about military strategy. Rather, the focus of this course is on how the nature of society affects war, and vice versa. To some extent this involves an interest in tactics and doctrine, but no more so than recruitment, training, logistics, production, innovation, and nationalism. Thus we will not focus on generals but instead we will try to see war from the perspectives of the private, drill sergeant, quartermaster, and munitions worker.The course is arranged by themes, which are only very roughly chronological. We begin by looking at the primitive war of warriors. In the second section, we move on to examine the style of warfare which was invented by the classical Greeks and has been characteristic of Western civilization ever since. In the third section we learn about total war, in which the entire society is mobilized for war and in which all of society becomes the object of military violence. In the final section we will learn about guerrilla warfare and terrorism. ER -