I've got to find the Sharman and especially the Enloe. (All of it sounds interesting, but too many books, too little time!) Thank you for the write-ups - the Sharman looks like an interesting rebuttal (even if not intended explicitly as such) of the entire Victor Davis Hanson Western Way of War and Carnage and Culture thesis/arguments about the "innate" functional "superiority" of "Western" warfare paradigms. I've never read Sharman before anywhere, but another author whom I've found interesting in a similar vein is historian Jeremy Black.