Humanity labored for millennia in ignorance of the reality of war, and then the Great War happened, poets realized the lie of "Dulce et decorum est," and now the Truth of History can be laid bare before the god of Trauma.
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So, I'm pretty all-in on the war-and-society school of things, but for sure we should always remember that our present view of war is just as subjective and contingent as Bertran de Born's
And also that "who won and why?" is still an important question. Winning and losing in war have consequences. Go ask the Carthaginians how important it was to encourage good strategic&tactical thinking in a systematic way, rather than relying on a once-in-a-generation genius.
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It seems to me that the maintenance of the so-called epikrateia for a couple centuries is good evidence that Carthaginians had decent strategic and tactical thinking. The war with Rome being as much a surprise for them as the Romans, I don't know what else they could have done?
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So obviously, I've got that article arguing that Carthaginian strategic thinking was, on the whole, reasonable and prudent. Which I think is true. On the flip side, Carthaginian generals seem to me - Hannibal excepted - to bat below replacement pretty consistently.
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