The War Plans Of The Great Powers 1880 1914

Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317702528

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The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War) by Paul Kennedy Pdf

The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor’s introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.

Author : Paul M. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Europe
ISBN : 1138017515

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The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 by Paul M. Kennedy Pdf

The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor's introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139481694

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War Planning 1914 by Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig Pdf

The major European powers drafted war plans before 1914 and executed them in August 1914; none brought the expected victory by Christmas. Why? This tightly focused collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting for the first time in three decades. The book analyzes the war plans of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, and Russia on the basis of the latest research and explores their demise in the opening months of World War I. Collectively and comparatively, these essays place contingency war planning before 1914 in the different contexts and challenges each state faced as well as into a broad European paradigm. This is the first such undertaking since Paul Kennedy's groundbreaking War Plans of the Great Powers (1979), and the end result is breathtaking in both scope and depth of analysis.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0511638396

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War Planning [electronic Resource]. by Richard F. Hamilton Pdf

Author : Paul M. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0049400827

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The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1881914 by Paul M. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Paul M. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:652294043

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The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 by Paul M. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Paul M. Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Europe
ISBN : OCLC:222900940

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The Operations Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 by Paul M. Kennedy Pdf

Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317702511

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The War Plans of the Great Powers (RLE The First World War) by Paul Kennedy Pdf

The origins of the First World War remain one of the greatest twentieth century historical controversies. In this debate the role of military planning in particular and of militarism in general, are a key focus of attention. Did the military wrest control from the civilians? Were the leaders of Europe eager for a conflict? What military commitments were made between the various alliance blocks? These questions are examined in detail here in eleven essays by distinguished historians and the editor’s introduction provides a focus and draws out the comparative approach to the history of military policies and war plans of the great powers.

Author : Michael E. Brown,Owen R. Cote, Jr.,Sean M. Lynn-Jones,Steven E. Miller
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262265273

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Offense, Defense, and War by Michael E. Brown,Owen R. Cote, Jr.,Sean M. Lynn-Jones,Steven E. Miller Pdf

An overview of offense-defense theory, which argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. Offense-defense theory argues that the relative ease of offense and defense varies in international politics. When the offense has the advantage, military conquest becomes easier and war is more likely; the opposite is true when the defense has the advantage. The balance between offense and defense depends on geography, technology, and other factors. This theory, and the body of related theories, has generated much debate and research over the past twenty-five years.This book presents a comprehensive overview of offense-defense theory. It includes contending views on the theory and some of the most recent attempts to refine and test it.

Author : Paul Kennedy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141983837

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The Rise And Fall of British Naval Mastery by Paul Kennedy Pdf

Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day. Challenging the traditional view that the British are natural 'sons of the waves', he suggests instead that the country's fortunes as a significant maritime force have always been bound up with its economic growth. In doing so, he contributes significantly to the centuries-long debate between 'continental' and 'maritime' schools of strategy over Britain's policy in times of war. Setting British naval history within a framework of national, international, economic, political and strategic considerations, he offers a fresh approach to one of the central questions in British history. A new introduction extends his analysis into the twenty-first century and reflects on current American and Chinese ambitions for naval mastery. 'Excellent and stimulating' Correlli Barnett 'The first scholar to have set the sweep of British Naval history against the background of economic history' Michael Howard, Sunday Times 'By far the best study that has ever been done on the subject ... a sparkling and apt quotation on practically every page' Daniel A. Baugh, International History Review 'The best single-volume study of Britain and her naval past now available to us' Jon Sumida, Journal of Modern History

Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0192803182

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The First World War by Keith Robbins Pdf

This book gives a clear chronological account of the campaigns on the Western and Eastern Fronts and then moves on to investigate areas that many studies ignore - the war poets, the diplomacy of war-aims and peace moves, logistics, and 'the experience of the war'.

Author : Terence Zuber
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831082

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German War Planning, 1891-1914 by Terence Zuber Pdf

Germany's Schlieffen Plan of the First World War is much talked of but little understood. Translations of primary sources recently available clarify the issues involved. The great deficiency in the discussion of German war planning prior to the Great War has been the dearth of reliable primary sources. Practically nothing was made public before the German Reichsarchiv was destroyed in April 1945, and this problem is compounded for Anglophone historians by the fact that the most interesting secondary literature was printed in German periodicals in the early 1920s. This book makes available in English translationmany of the documents concerning German war planning before 1914 that survived the war, but were kept closely guarded by the East German army archives, and only became available with the fall of the wall. Included are the only archival history of German war planning, Wilhelm Dieckmann's Der Schlieffenplan, Hellmuth Greiner's secret history of the German west front intelligence estimate from 1885 to 1914, and two of the younger Moltke's General Staff exercises. The book also presents other little-known documents found in other German archives as well as the most important parts of the 1920s literature concerning the debate on the German war plan. The picture ofGerman war planning which now emerges is both more complex and more credible than the previous single-minded emphasis on the 'Schlieffenplan'. TERENCE ZUBER has also written Inventing the Schlieffen Plan and The Moltke Myth; born in Cleveland, Ohio, he is currently living in Wurzburg, Germany.

Author : Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521110969

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War Planning 1914 by Richard F. Hamilton,Holger H. Herwig Pdf

This collection of essays by international experts in military history reassesses the war plans of 1914 in a broad diplomatic, military, and political setting.

Author : Dong Sun Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135978204

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Power Shifts, Strategy and War by Dong Sun Lee Pdf

Marked changes in the balance of power between states in the international system are generally seen by IR scholars as among the most common causes of war. This book explains why such power shifts lead to war breaking out in some cases, but not in others. In contrast to existing approaches, this book argues that the military strategy of declining states is the key determinant of whether power shifts result in war or pass peacefully. More specifically, Dong Sun Lee argues that the probability of war is primarily a function of whether a declining state possesses a ‘manoeuvre strategy’ or an ‘attrition strategy’. The argument is developed through the investigation of fourteen power shifts among great powers over the past two centuries. Shifts in the balance of power and the attendant risks of war remain an enduring feature of international politics. This book argues that policymakers need to understand the factors influencing the risk of war as a result of these changes, in particular the contemporary shifts in power resulting from the rise of China and from the growth of nuclear proliferation.

Author : Talbot C. Imlay,Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134210879

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The Fog of Peace and War Planning by Talbot C. Imlay,Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty? The perspective of military planners is a key organizing framework: do they see themselves as preparing to administer a peace, or preparing to fight a future war? Most interwar volumes examine only the 1920s and the 1930s. This new volume goes back, and forward in time, to draw on a greater expanse of history in order to tease out lessons for contemporary planners. These chapters are grouped into four periods: 1815-1856, 1871-1914, 1918-1938, and post-Second World War. They progress from low-tech to high-tech concerns, for example, the first period examines armies, while the second period examines navies, the third asseses navies combined with air forces, and finally for the Kaiser chapter explores nuclear issues and decision-making.