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End of War, The
(Horgan),
15

England,
12
,
15
–
17
,
187
,
197
,
205
; American colonies of,
195
,
208
; ancient,
see
Britons, ancient; Bank of,
190
,
191
; civil wars in,
15
,
201
,
206
; French conflicts with,
197
,
200
(see
also
Agincourt, Battle of); in Middle Ages,
135
–
37
,
139
,
145
; Navigation Acts,
209
; Norman conquest of,
135
; prehistoric,
311
,
159
;
see also
Britain

Enlightenment,
321

Epictetus,
39

Estonia,
258
,
330
,
343

Ethiopia,
221
,
368

European Union,
341
–
46
,
342
,
381
; Common Security and Defense Policy,
343

evolution,
22
,
294
–
95
,
299
,
338
; biological,
76
,
305
,
308
,
314
,
390
; cultural,
314
–
17
,
378
,
383
; Darwin's definition of,
294
; gradualist versus punctuated views of,
82
; paradox of,
294
,
298
; technology and,
388

Fa'amu, Fa'apua'a,
58

Face of Battle, The
(Keegan),
21

famines,
7
,
255
,
356
; war-related deaths due to,
226
–
27
,
258

Fancheng (China),
144

Farewell to Arms, A
(Hemingway),
253

farming,
85
,
183
–
84
,
213
,
387
; career alternatives to, 204–205; by Germanic peoples,
122
–
23
; in China,
72
–
73
,
111
,
121
–
22
,
140
,
184
,
356
–
57
; disease and,
193
–
94
; and Hitler's
Lebensraum
,
264
; impact of climate change on,
127
–
28
; industrialization and,
217
,
238
,
356
,
357
; in Mauryan Empire,
71
,
111
; origins of,
75
–
80
,
208
,
269
,
317
,
334
–
35
; in Roman Empire,
32
,
41
,
48
,
111
; in Soviet Union,
285
,
316
; in United States,
213
;
see also
caging

Federalists,
208

Ferguson, Niall,
23
,
24
,
195
,
264
,
357

Fertile Crescent,
87
–
92
,
94
–
101
,
104
–
105

feudal anarchy,
138
–
40
,
145
,
146
,
151
,
337

feuds,
44
,
59
,
80
,
184
,
231

Fin Cop (England),
36

Finland,
261

firearms,
143
,
170
,
174
–
76
,
182
;
see also
cannons; guns

Firearms: A Global History to 1700
(Chase),
176

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
387

fleets,
162
,
185
,
187
–
88
; American,
58
,
256
; British,
191
,
197
,
218
,
224
,
240
,
247
,
255
,
256
; Chinese,
144
; Dutch,
190
,
191
,
197
; French,
200
,
214
; German,
247
,
268
,
359
; Hawaiian,
150
; Roman,
41
; Spanish,
210

flexible response,
282
–
85

Florence,
170

Flower Wars,
157

Fofoa,
58

Fontenoy, Battle of,
189

foot soldiers,
see
infantry

Foreign Policy
magazine,
362

fortifications,
38
,
82
,
84
,
157
,
319
; ancient,
61
,
72
,
85
,
87
,
89
,
92
,
98
,
142
,
173
,
336
; barbarian attacks on,
143
; innovations in shapes of,
173
; firearms and,
172
–
73
,
182
; in World War II,
272

Founding Fathers,
18

fracking,
364

France,
170
,
172
,
192
,
201
,
244
,
261
,
265
,
341
; absolutism in,
190
; American Revolution supported by,
210
; ancient,
see
Gaul; antiwar attitudes in,
344
; cave paintings in,
313
; during Cold War,
276
; English conflicts with,
197
,
200
(see
also
Agincourt, Battle of); in entente cordiale with Britain,
242
; in European Union,
343
; Hobbes criticized in,
17
; imperialism of,
195
,
199
–
200
,
219
,
225
,
227
,
229
,
242
,
269
; industrialization of,
239
,
239
; in League of Nations,
257
; in Middle Ages,
136
–
37
; Mississippi Bubble bank crash in,
191
; in Napoleonic wars,
212
–
15
,
215
,
256
; oceangoing ships of,
181
,
188
; prehistoric,
77
; Russian Civil War intervention of,
258
; sale of North American holdings by,
219
; standardization of war machine in,
188
–
89
; in World War I,
236
,
245
–
51
,
253
,
254
,
255
,
265
,
358
; in World War II,
54
,
259
,
265
–
66

Francis of Assisi, Saint,
139

Franco-Prussian War,
231

Franks,
129
,
137

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria,
236
,
244
–
45

Frazier, Joe,
89
n
Freeman, Derek,
58

free trade,
238
–
40
,
266

Friedman, George,
375
,
376

French Revolution,
206
,
212

Fry, Douglas,
15

Fujian,
115

Fukuyama, Francis,
62
–
63

futurists,
377
,
379
–
80
,
386
,
389

Gallant, Jack,
381

galleons,
181
,
187

Gallipoli,
247

Gama, Vasco da,
180
,
182
,
192
,
197

game theory,
297
–
99
,
321
,
325

Gandhi, Mohandas K.,
260

Ganges Valley,
92
,
107
,
144

Gansu,
115

Gat, Azar,
14
,
15
,
18

Gates, Robert,
353

Gatling gun,
221

≠Gau,
78
–
80

Gaul,
8
,
35
,
38
,
49
,
78
–
80
; barbarian invasion of,
129
; pre-Roman,
84

Geneva Conventions,
351

Genghis Khan,
143
–
45
,
162
,
376

genocide,
7
,
58

Georgia,
330
,
343

Germanic peoples,
79
,
122
–
25
,
129
,
130
; in Roman Empire,
29
,
30
,
31
,
32
,
35
,
84
,
136

Germany,
5
n
,
23
–
24
,
200
,
242
–
44
,
345
,
392
; ancient,
114
,
115
(see
also
Germanic peoples); Bundesbank,
342
; division of,
273
(see also
East Germany; West Germany); imperialism of,
225
,
341
,
348
,
357
,
359
; industrialization of,
239
,
239
–
40
; in Middle Ages,
133
,
136
,
145
; NATO and Soviet threat to,
283
; naval power of,
241
; prehistoric,
311
; reunification of,
330
,
341
; unification of,
239
,
255
; in World War I,
236
,
245
–
55
,
253
,
258
,
264
,
356
,
358
; in World War II,
19
,
23
,
54
,
224
,
259
,
264
–
72
,
270
,
356

Gestapo,
269

Ghor, prince of,
167

Ghurid Empire,
144

Gibbon, Edward,
39
–
41
,
43
,
111
,
123

Gilbert, W. S.,
238
,
403
n

Gladiator
(film),
124
n
gladiators,
40
,
68
,
109

Global Times
,
360

Global Trends 2030
(National Intelligence Council),
367
,
369

Global War on Terror,
359

globocops,
25
,
271
,
341
; American,
333
,
338
,
341
,
344
,
345
,
348
,
350
,
352
,
354
,
357
,
358
,
363
,
366
–
67
,
374
,
385
,
386
,
388
; British,
338
,
344
,
348
–
50
,
352
,
357
,
364
–
66
,
388
,
392
(see
also
British Empire)

Goa (India),
193

Gods Must Be Crazy, The
(film),
60

Golding, William,
53
,
54
,
62

Goldstein, Joshua,
15
,
19

Gombe War,
288
–
90
,
289
,
298
–
301
,
317

Gong Ye,
122
,
128

Goodall, Jane,
288
,
290
,
317

Google,
380
,
395
n
; Glass,
86
,
390

Gorbachev, Mikhail,
328
–
30
,
331

Göring, Hermann,
268

Goths,
129
,
130
,
143

Graupian Mountain, battle at,
27
–
29
,
31
–
32
,
43
,
110
,
111
,
113
,
293
,
393

Great Bengal Famine,
226

Great Depression,
259
–
60

Great Game,
346
,
346

Great Illusion, The (Angell),
235
,
338
–
39

Great Plains,
162

Great Wall of China,
106
,
119
,
141

Great Zimbabwe,
154
,
162
,
196

Greece,
247
,
258
,
343
; Gothic invasion of,
129

Greeks, ancient,
61
,
75
,
100
,
102
,
107
,
109
; city-states of,
50
–
51
; historians,
20
,
47
; in India,
73
–
74
; in Roman Empire,
8
,
33
–
35
,
47
–
49
,
123
; in Trojan War,
97
; and Western-way-of-war theory,
64
–
66
,
82
,
120
,
174
,
175
,
252
,
336
,
388

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