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The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814. By John Grenier. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. xiv, 232 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-521-84566-1.)
In The First Way of War John Grenier discusses the development of American war making from the first settlement of Jamestown to the War of 1812. He argues that "early Americans created a military tradition that accepted, legitimized, and encouraged attacks upon and the destruction of non-combatants, villages, and agricultural resources" and that they "forged two elements—unlimited war and irregular war—into their first way of war" (p. 10). . . .
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