... of individual, hand-to-hand combat. Grandstrategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too,much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of ... world of inde-pendent political communities bound together by the rule of law ratherthan by the sovereignty of a single emperor. The Chinese can thereforebe said to have been the pioneers of the ... the law of war. It tells the story, in narrative form, of the interplay through the centuriesbetween,ontheonehand,legalideasaboutwarand,ontheotherhand,statepracticeinwarfare.Neffcovers the emergence,...