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In the centralized perspective, there is never any doubt concerning the outcome of a war. The winner is known before the battle takes place: the enemy’s army is so inferior in quality that it is impossible for him to make up for this by numbers or deception. What takes place is not a clash of two contraposed forces, but the submission of an inferior to a superior world. The two adversaries cannot even meet or fight; we have no real battles, only flights and massacres.
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A. Archi in OA, 13 (1974), pp. 113–14.
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Liverani, M. (2001). Ordeal by War. In: International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600–1100 BC. Studies in Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286399_16
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