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Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Chapter One War, What it 'Is', 'Type' and Trajectory -- War: A Definition -- Total War as a Phenomenon -- Limited War as a Phenomenon -- Grounding Limited War: A Brief Historical Perspective -- The Dangers of Limited War -- The Seemingly Limitless Impacts of a Limited War: The Vietnam War and Its Iconoclastic Effect on the Western 'Model' of War -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two Taiwan at the Crossroads: A Robust Independent Country and a Catalyst for War -- Introduction -- Taiwan: Independent and Prosperous -- Taiwan and the Issue of 'Sovereignty' as Ascribed by the West and the United Nations -- Taiwan ROC: A Forthright Political and Economic Actor -- The Dawn of Pax-Sino: From Cataclysms to Cosmopolitanism -- Globalisation and Its Impacts and Ramifications: A Brief Deliberation -- Globalisation and the Collapse of a Superpower -- Taiwan and China: The Way it Might Have Been -- Chapter Three International Relations and War -- Globalisation as a Continuum: Politico-power and Preponderance -- International Relations and the Term 'Nascent': A Brief Deliberation -- War as it 'Is': A Conceptual Underpinning -- Chapter Four The Asia-Pacific in the Second and Third Decades of the Twenty-First Century -- The Taiwan Strait -- Taiwan as the Epicentre of an Asia-Pacific War -- A Forthcoming War: The Evidence-Base and Narrative -- How a War Will 'Happen' and the Interdependencies Therein -- China and Its Cautious Approach Toward Retrocession -- The Surprise of No 'Surprise' Attack -- Why a 'Traditional' Invasion of Taiwan Will Not Occur -- What a War Involves: A Brief Deliberation -- Taiwan and the Realities of a War with China: A Brief Deliberation -- Taiwan-China and a High-Intensity Munitions Exchange: A Brief Deliberation.

Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Dedication -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgement -- Preface -- Chapter One Introduction -- Chapter Two Age of Feudalism -- Chapter Three A Feudal Knight's Life of Anxiety and Insecurity -- Chapter Four The Norman Invasion, 14 October 1066 -- Chapter Five The Next Twenty Years for Honfroi and Raoul -- Chapter Six The Norman Life in Anglo-Saxon England -- Chapter Seven Dominus de Castle Combe -- Chapter Eight Primogeniture, Heresy and Anarchy -- Chapter Nine A Surge of Investment in Scotland -- Chapter Ten Westward Ho -- Chapter Eleven Henry II's Boyfriend -- Chapter Twelve Dominus, Churches and Universities -- Chapter Thirteen Magna Carta and Climate Change -- Chapter Fourteen Anti-Semitism and Banking -- Chapter Fifteen Wars of Independence and the Little Ice Age -- Chapter Sixteen The Maverick -- Chapter Seventeen The Great Starvation (1315-1322) -- Chapter Eighteen The Plague, and Reinventing Duchal -- Chapter Nineteen Recovering from the Plague -- Chapter Twenty Unstable Environment as Feudalism Splutters -- Chapter Twenty-One Four Hundred and Forty Thousand Acres -- Chapter Twenty-Two The Glue That Binds, and Two Kings -- Chapter Twenty-Three Every Aspect of the Old-World Collapses -- Chapter Twenty-Four Lazy Days, a Fiendish Relative, Desperation and Defeat -- Chapter Twenty-Five Master James and the English Reformation Legislating Rational Doctrinal Changes.