Video presentation of Cambridge University Lecture: Hew Strachan: The Nature of War: Why fight? The Problem of Combat Motivation. In the ancient and medieval worlds men fought for booty and in doing so aligned their personal motivation with that of the monarch or the state they served -- given that the latter's aim was conquest. After 1789 the motivations of citizen soldiers were seen as political and patriotic, and, however much the strains of combat called personal patriotism into question, the latter legitimated the military profession.
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