Latin America's Wars: The age of the caudillo, 1791-1899 - Robert L. Scheina - Google Books

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He focuses on operational history in the context of war as an instrument of politics and society, including insightful analyses of the military as an institution and of its relations with civilian government."--BOOK JACKET.