nr="89"Military Intelligence and Long-Term Planning in the Ninth Century : The Carolingians and Their Adversaries
Bernard S. Bachrach|David S. Bachrach
Abstract: Historians of warfare in the western tradition have devoted considerable attention to problem military intelligence from Greek and Persian wars fifth century B.C.E. up recent past. Strikingly absent this conversation, however, has been treatment acquisition analysis information for purposes pre-Crusade Europe, particularly Carolingian immediate post-Carolingian world. In part, lacuna is result a general neglect by modern scholars matters ninth tenth centuries. A second major reason lack studies dead hand nineteenth-century romantic-nationalist historiography that imposed “dark-age” straight-jacket on many aspects history early medieval This emphatically includes warfare, which treated context putatively Tacitean or Beowulfian quest honor booty, rather than as highly complex element governmental activity. The present study addresses gap understanding nature through an examination with focus Carolingians their opponents, primarily Vikings, Muslim polity Spain, Slavs. divided into three parts examine turn, strategic intelligence, campaign tactical battlefield intelligence.
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