Coalition Strategy And The End Of The First World War

Author : Meighen McCrae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Military planning
ISBN : 1108466680

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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War by Meighen McCrae Pdf

"When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminates how, throughout this planning process, the Supreme War Council evolved to become the predominant mechanism for coalition war-making. She analyses the Council's role in the formulation of an Allied strategy for 1918-1919 across the various theatres of war and compares the perspectives of the British, French, Americans, and Italians. In doing so we learn how, in an early example of modern alliance warfare, the Supreme War Council had to coordinate national needs with coalition ones."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Meighen McCrae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108475303

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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War by Meighen McCrae Pdf

This exploration of Allied war plans for 1918-1919 uncovers how the Supreme War Council became a successful mechanism for coalition war.

Author : Meighen McCrae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108618403

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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War by Meighen McCrae Pdf

When the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been expecting, and planning for, the war to continue into 1919, the year they hoped to achieve a complete military victory over the Central Powers. Meighen McCrae illuminates how, throughout this planning process, the Supreme War Council evolved to become the predominant mechanism for coalition war-making. She analyses the Council's role in the formulation of an Allied strategy for 1918–1919 across the various theatres of war and compares the perspectives of the British, French, Americans and Italians. In doing so we learn how, in an early example of modern alliance warfare, the Supreme War Council had to coordinate national needs with coalition ones.

Author : Kevin D. Stubbs
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055822913

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Race to the Front by Kevin D. Stubbs Pdf

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, nearly every combatant foresaw a short decisive conflict. Experience would soon prove, however, that this belief was sorely misplaced. Eventually, excessive economic dislocations would topple every authoritarian regime. Only the intervention of the United States would save the British and the French from collapse. This book traces the trilateral struggle between the Entente, the Central Powers, and the United States to determine the outcome of the war. Stubbs focuses on a few essential factors vital to understanding this three-way race: the acquisition of war materiel, food, human resources, and the movement of each. In an analysis of coalition strategies, it is not enough to study the memoirs and memoranda of General Staffs or political figures engaged in war. One must also examine the roles played by each population, their industries, economy, means of transportation, and the financial decisions that make such strategies possible. In short, the material foundations of war set the boundaries within which strategic maneuvers occur. Ultimately, the United States determined the outcome of the First World War, not simply because it provided the last untapped reservoir of manpower, but due to its overall economic contributions to the allied effort.

Author : David French
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191590740

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The Strategy of the Lloyd George Coalition, 1916-1918 by David French Pdf

The popular image of the First World War is dominated by two misconceptions. The first holds that the war was an exercise in futility in which incompetent upper class generals callously sacrificed an entire generation of young men to no good purpose. The second holds that the debate about British strategic policy during the First World War was a gladiatorial contest between `brass hats' (generals), and `frock coats' (politicians). Historians, denied access for too long to the contemporary records of the private deliberations of policy-makers, had been forced to follow both interpretations. David French challenges this orthodoxy and suggests that the policy-makers were united in trying to relate strategic policy to a carefully considered set of war aims. His challenging conclusion is that the policy-makers never lost sight of their goal, which was to ensure that Britain fought the war at an acceptable cost and emerged from it with its security enhanced against both its enemies and its allies.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Strategy
ISBN : WISC:89003638707

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare: 1943-1944 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

Author : R. L. DiNardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062878502

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Germany and the Axis Powers from Coalition to Collapse by R. L. DiNardo Pdf

It seemed that whenever Mussolini acted on his own, it was bad news for Hitler. Indeed, the Fuhrer's relations with his Axis partners were fraught with an almost total lack of coordination. Compared to the Allies, the coalition was hardly an alliance at all. Focusing on Germany's military relations with Italy, Romania, Hungary, and Finland, Richard DiNardo unearths a wealth of information that reveals how the Axis coalition largely undermined Hitler's objectives from the Eastern Front to the Balkans, Mediterranean, and North Africa. DiNardo argues that the Axis military alliance was doomed from the beginning by a lack of common war aims, the absence of a unified command structure, and each nation's fundamental mistrust of the others. Germany was disinclined to make the kinds of compromises that successful wartime partnerships demanded and, because Hitler insisted on separate pacts with each nation, Italy and Finland often found themselves conducting counterproductive parallel wars on their own. DiNardo's detailed assessments of ground, naval, and air operations reveal precisely why the Axis allies were so dysfunctional as a collective force, sometimes for seemingly mundane but vital reasons-a shortage of interpreters, for example. His analysis covers coalition warfare at every level, demonstrating that some military services were better at working with their allies than others, while also pointing to rare successes, such as Rommel's effective coordination with Italian forces in North Africa. In the end, while some individual Axis units fought with distinction—if not on a par with the vaunted Wehrmacht—and helped Germany achieve some of its military aims, the coalition's overall military performance was riddled with disappointments. Breaking new ground, DiNardo's work enlarges our understanding of Germany's defeat while at the same time offering a timely reminder of the challenges presented by coalition warfare.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Combined operations (Military science)
ISBN : SRLF:AA0007075963

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 [--1943-1944] by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

Author : Peter R. Mansoor,Williamson Murray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107136021

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Grand Strategy and Military Alliances by Peter R. Mansoor,Williamson Murray Pdf

A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.

Author : Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UOM:39015004963990

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Strategic Planning for Coalition Warfare, 1941-1942 by Maurice Matloff,Edwin Marion Snell Pdf

A description of wartime national planning and military strategy as they affected the missions and dispositions of the U.S. Army in the defensive phase of coalition warfare.

Author : Michael Howard,Michael Eliot Howard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199205592

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The First World War by Michael Howard,Michael Eliot Howard Pdf

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did. It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the onset of attrition and crisis; the role of the US; the collapse of Russia; and the weakening and eventual surrender of the Central Powers. Looking at the historical controversies surrounding the causes and conduct of war, Michael Howard also describes how peace was ultimately made, and the potent legacy of resentment left to Germany. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773597907

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Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 by G.W.L. Nicholson,Mark Osborne Humphries Pdf

Colonel G.W.L. Nicholson's Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 was first published by the Department of National Defence in 1962 as the official history of the Canadian Army’s involvement in the First World War. Immediately after the war ended Colonel A. Fortescue Duguid made a first attempt to write an official history of the war, but the ill-fated project produced only the first of an anticipated eight volumes. Decades later, G.W.L. Nicholson - already the author of an official history of the Second World War - was commissioned to write a new official history of the First. Illustrated with numerous photographs and full-colour maps, Nicholson’s text offers an authoritative account of the war effort, while also discussing politics on the home front, including debates around conscription in 1917. With a new critical introduction by Mark Osborne Humphries that traces the development of Nicholson’s text and analyzes its legacy, Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919 is an essential resource for both professional historians and military history enthusiasts.

Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : EAN:4066339538344

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On War by Carl von Clausewitz Pdf

"On War" by Carl von Clausewitz (translated by J. J. Graham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Roy A. Prete
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773576957

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Strategy and Command by Roy A. Prete Pdf

Histories of the First World War are often written from a British perspective, ignoring the coalition element of the conflict and the French point of view. In Strategy and Command, Roy Prete offers a major new interpretation supported by in-depth research in French archival sources. In the first of three projected volumes, Prete crafts a behind-the-scenes look at Anglo-French command relations during World War I, from the start of the conflict until 1915, when trench warfare drastically altered the situation. Drawing on extensive archival research, Prete argues that the British government's primary interest lay in the defence of the empire; the small expeditionary force sent to France was progressively enlarged because the French, especially Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre, dragged their British ally into a progressively greater involvement. Several crises in Anglo-French command relations derived from these competing strategic objectives. New information gleaned from French public and private archives - including private diaries - enlarge our understanding of key players in the allied relationship. Prete shows that suspicion and distrust on the part of both sides of the alliance continued to inform relations well after the circumstances creating them had changed. Strategy and Command clearly establishes the fundamental strategic differences between the allies at the start of the war, setting the stage for the next two volumes.

Author : A. F. Pollard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368363567

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A Short History of the Great War by A. F. Pollard Pdf

Reproduction of the original.