How do military historians explain the war? To answer a question like this, you have to look at scholarship. However, works alone cannot explain the full extent of the war, meaning that historians take from studies and insert what they deem necessary for the explanation of the war. Western war experiences have shaped the outcome of further war studies. Authors such as Victor Davis Hanson, John Lynn, John Keegan, Martin van Creveld and Niall Ferguson detail the extent to which the Western way of warfare is superior to any other. The objective in studying the Western way of warfare revolves around the concept of superiority in war. The comparison and distinction between Victor Davis Hanson, Carnage and Culture (2001), and John A. Lynn, Battle (2003), highlighted their overwhelming backgrounds in military research. Both historians possessed the proper means to tell an incredible military story of which Hanson excelled on an ancient level with Greco-Roman history and Lynn as an expert on 18th and 19th century European history between the periods of Louis XIV and Napoleon. Hanson concluded that the Western way of warfare was far superior to the Eastern one and began his research with Greek civilization and its first form of democracy. Alternatively, Lynn focused his research on the influences and/or limitations of the political and social aspects of the war, including that of the East. The major work that influenced both historians was John Keegan's book, A History of Warfare (1993). Lynn recognized the importance of Keegan's thesis, but Hanson followed the theme of Western superiority originated by Keegan. Hanson published his work in 2001 before the September 11 attacks and added a... half-article... Usewitz, Genius, and the Rules." The Journal of Military History vol. 66, no. 4 (October 2002) : 1167-1176. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3093268Rothenberg, Gunther E. Review of Battle: A History of Combat and Culture, by John A. Lynn. 3 (July 2004): 943-945. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3396733Van Creveld, Martin. “The Clausewitzian Universe and the Law of War.” /4, The impact of Western nationalisms: essays dedicated to Walter Z. Laqueur on the occasion of his 70th birthday (September 1991): 403-429. http://www.jstor.org/stable/260653Wert, Hal Elliott of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power, by Victor Davis Hanson. The Journal of Military History vol. stable/3093471