Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West

258 Pages·2016·1.19 MB·English

by  Martin van Creveld

Pussycats

By Martin van Creveld

DLVC Enterprises
Also by Martin van Creveld A History of Strategy: From Sun Tzu to William S. Lind (2015)
Conscience: A Biography (2015) Equality: The Impossible Quest (2015) Conscience: A Biography (2015)
The Privileged Sex (2013) Wargames: From Gladiators to Gigabytes (2013) The Age of Airpower (2011)
The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel (2010) The Culture of War (2008) The American
Riddle (in Russian) (2008) The Changing Face of War (2006) Defending Israel (2004) Moshe Dayan
(2004) Men, Women and War (2001) The Art of War: War and Military Thought (2000) The Rise and
Decline of the State (1999) The Sword and the Olive: a Critical History of the Israel Defense Forces (1998)
Airpower and Maneuver Warfare (1994) Nuclear Proliferation and the Future of Conflict (1993) The
Transformation of War (1991) The Training of Officers: From Professionalism to Irrelevance (1990)
Technology and War: From 200 B.C to the Present (1989) Command in War (1985) Fighting Power:
German and U.S Army Performance, 1939-1945 (1982) Supplying War: From Wallenstein to Patton (1978)
Hitler’s Strategy, 1940-41: The Balkan Clue (1973)
Pussycats
Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West—
and What Can Be Done About It

By Martin van Creveld

DLVC Enterprises
Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Van Creveld, Martin,
1946
Pussycats,
Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West— and What Can Be Done About It First
Edition: 2016
ISBN: 978-1533232007

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Bring forth the mighty men, let them press forward, let them rise up. Beat your
plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let even the weak
man say, I am a mighty warrior.
Joel 3.9-10
List of Contents
Preface xi
Introduction: The Record of Failure Chapter I. Subduing the Young
1. A Tale of Two Childhoods
2. “They Can’t Handle It”
3. Prohibit and Censor
4. Becoming Infantilized
5. “From Austria Came a Man”

Chapter II. Defanging the Troops 1. “To Horse, to Horse!”
2. The War on Men
3. A Government of Lawyers
4. The de-Militarized Military
5. Soldiers into Mercenaries

Chapter III. Feminizing the Forces
1. In Pursuit of Equality
2. Amazones Antianeirai 3. Retaining Privilege
4. In the Land of Doublethink
5. The End of Masculinity
Chapter IV. Constructing PTSD
1. “Seek, and You Shall Find”
2. Achilles in Vietnam
3. From Soldiers’ Heart to Combat Fatigue
4. The Great Epidemic
5. Damaged Goods?

Chapter V. Delegitimizing War 1. Of Might and Right
2. The Rise of Rights
3. The Demise of Duty
4. Learning to Say No
5. The Absolute Evil

Conclusion: Hannibal intra Portas Thanks
Endnotes
Index