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Part 1. Defense without war? -- The need for defense -- Civilian-based defense -- Historical prototypes -- Improvised struggles against Coups d'état -- Improvised struggles against invasions -- A basis for systematic development -- Notes -- Part 2. Tapping the sources of power -- Unexpected capacities -- Dependent rulers -- Identifying the sources of power -- Dependency on the governed -- Repression insufficient -- The possibility for collective resistance -- Requirements for implementation -- The structural basis of popular control -- The structural basis of freedom -- Societal origins of defense -- Notes -- Part 3. Wielding power -- A nonviolent weapons system -- The methods of nonviolent action -- Wielding power -- The importance of strategy -- The importance of the loci of power -- The opponents' problems -- Repression -- Combative nonviolent discipline -- Political jujitsu -- Four mechanisms of change -- Factors influencing coercion and disintegration -- Removing the sources of power -- Failure or success? -- Changes in the struggle group -- Even against dictatorships -- Notes --

World history and military history which are on par can be discussed neither analyzed individually when the bound historical events and wars are concerned. Therefore, the source of man-made weapons in the military history is often apparent to be connected with the quotidian routine of the ancient man. Ancient weapons used in the battles are recorded to have been manufactured in different parts of the world, but with many similarities seemingly. The man lived in different places worldwide as well as in different tribes in the bygone times. These tribes did not know each other nor did exchange their social knowledge or experiences. As such, it is astonishing the exhibited more or less similar thinking pattern by the ancient lived in never seen corners of the world. But, it really happened in world history. The Native Australians' Boomerang and the ancient Egyptians' Throwing Stick, Sword and the Macahuitl of which the sides are embedded with prismatic obsidian blades, the Native Americans' Gunstock and Native Samoans' War Club to be similar thinking patterns is illustrated here. In addition, the Indian katar which is a type of push dagger and the Native Americans' all-purpose knife Ulu are two hand held weapons which exhibit similar grasping.In this study, the researcher has studied about the evolution of primary weapons and then analyzed the above mentioned groups of weapons which display identical parallel thinking patterns of human beings.