The Strategy of the Great War; a Study of Its Campaigns And Battles in Their Relation to Allied And German Military Policy
The book The Strategy of the Great War; a Study of Its Campaigns And Battles in Their Relation to Allied And German Military Policy was written by author Mcpherson, William Lenhart, 1865-1930 Here you can read free online of The Strategy of the Great War; a Study of Its Campaigns And Battles in Their Relation to Allied And German Military Policy book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Strategy of the Great War; a Study of Its Campaigns And Battles in Their Relation to Allied And German Military Policy a good or bad book?
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But thereafter they never succeeded in defeating the Gerrnans except when fighting on the defensive. Russia as a military power was no longer in the same class with Germany or France. Her armies could still defeat those of Austria-Hungary or Turkey. But they were always hopelessly incapable, through defects in equipment, leadership, and morale, of an offensive against Germany. The natural result was that the Russians abandoned the strategic precept which the French staff had enun- ciated — that... "the essential object is to prosecute the destruction of the principal enemy." They turned the force of their attack against Austria-Hungary, the secondary enemy. On the Austro-Hungarian front they had a series of remarkable successes. They con- quered Bukowina and more than two thirds of Galicia. They captured the fortress of Przemysl with its garrison of 130,000 men. They fought their way across the Carpathians. In the first nine months of the war they buoyed up the hopes of the Entente, and they Development of Allied Strategy m might have continued to be a factor of the greatest importance if France and Great Britain had been able to munition them, steady them, or direct their miHtary energies, as Germany did with her weaker associates.
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