The Gentleman Wars - A Novel About War and Capitalism

War was extremely ritualistic before, right? You hear these stories of these Greek phalanxes. In fact, the European wars of the 17th and 18th century were called the Gentleman Wars. Gerard thinks there's two types of frictions. One is this sort of ritualistic side of war that we've already discussed,. The idea is, you know, it's uncouth to completely murder the other phalanx if they already seceded the land.