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John A Lynn

John A Lynn

John A Lynn

Adjunct Professor, Ohio State; Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois

johnlynn@illinois.edu

BOOKS

The Bayonets of the Republic: Motivation and Tactics in the Army of Revolutionary France, 1791-94. University of Illinois Press. 1984.

The Tools of War: Ideas, Instruments, and Institutions of Warfare, 1445-1871. Ed. John A. Lynn. University of Illinois Press. 1990.

Feeding Mars: Logistics in Western Warfare from the Middle Ages to the Present. Ed. John A. Lynn. Westview Press. 1993.

Giant of the Grand Siècle: The French Army, 1610-1715. Cambridge University Press. 1997.

The Wars of Louis XIV, 1667-1714. Longman. 1999.

Battle: A History of Combat and Culture. Westview Press. 2004.

Women, Armies, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. 2008.

Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019.
 

Publications

Lynn, J. A. (2019). Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism. Yale University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvk8vzjr

Lynn, J. A. (2019). The bayonets of the republic: Motivation and tactics in the army of revolutionary france, 1791-94. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429309052

Lynn, J. A. (2018). Recalculating French army growth during the Grand Siècley 1610-1715. In C. J. Rogers (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of early Modern Europe (pp. 117-148). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496264-6

Lynn, J. A. (2018). The trace italienne and the growth of armies: The French case. In C. J. Rogers (Ed.), The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of early Modern Europe (pp. 169-200). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429496264-8

Lynn, J. A. (2017). Toward an army of honor: The moral evolution of the french army, 1789-1815. In Warfare in Europe 1792-815 (pp. 195-216). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351126724-8

 

Responses to terrorism require reasoning, not outrage

In his new book "Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism," History Department Emeritus Professor John Lynn seeks to contribute to "civic education and, in a sense, civil defense." The difficult - yet critical - lesson Professor Lynn instills is that “In dealing with terrorism,...

 

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