PART ONE: First Things First: Beginnings in History, to 500 B

5. elite reaction. 6. the Great Depression hit Japan hard ... rifles and highly developed cannons made a mockery of the way war had been waged for two centuries—tightly packed ranks of men, unarmored, marching toward each other on open fields. ... • War places human beings in dangerous situations that are hard to cope with both physically ... ................
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