Victor Davis Hanson: author of the book "Carnage & Culture"
(Doubleday 2001), published in Great Britain & the Commonwealth
countries as "Why the West Has Won", in which he argued that
the military dominance of Western civilization, beginning
with the ancient Greeks, results from certain fundamental
aspects of Western culture, such as consensual government,
a tradition of self-critique, secular rationalism, religious
tolerance, individual freedom, free expression, free markets,
& individualism. Hanson's emphasis on cultural exception
rejects racial explanations for Western military preeminence
& disagrees as well with environmental or geographical
determinist explanations such as those put forth by Jared
Diamond in "Guns, Germs, & Steel" (1997).

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