Space-Time Orientations and Contemporary Political-Military Thought.
Conflicting time and space perceptions, seated in the cultural centers of societies and rooted in social rituals and patterns of life, are important aspects of strategic interaction. In some societies, these spatiotemporal perceptions play a major role in defining social order; in others, they prov...
| Publicado en: | Armed Forces & Society (0095327X) Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 119 - 141 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Fall 2004
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