... clear, however, that their fanati-cism was valued in situations of individual, hand-to-hand combat. Grandstrategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too,much the same ... statecraft, culmina-ting in the evolution of what became known as the legal institution of war in the nineteenth century. There is also coverage of the much-neglected topic of measures short of war, most ... this paved the way for the substantial discarding, after the Second World War, of waras a legal institution, in favour of the alternate conception of aggres-sion -and- self-defence. Treatment of...