Ebook: The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607–1814

Well-written, thoroughly researched, and persuasively argued, this work is not about who started what first--leave that to children in the sandbox--, rather it addresses the roots of the American style of warfare. Whatever practices the various Indian nations had in waging war were not as important as the cultural and historical baggage carried by Europeans to the New World and their resort to those practices out of frustration at their inability to match Indian agility or skill in the wilds of North America.