On War
Author: Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13:
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The Purpose of the First World War
Author: Holger Afflerbach
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 3110435993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNearly fourteen million people died during the First World War. But why, and for what reason? Already many contemporaries saw the Great War as a "pointless carnage" (Pope Benedict XV, 1917). Was there a point, at least in the eyes of the political and military decision makers? How did they justify the losses, and why did they not try to end the war earlier? In this volume twelve international specialists analyses and compares the hopes and expectations of the political and military leaders of the main belligerent countries and of their respective societies. It shows that the war aims adopted during the First World War were not, for the most part, the cause of the conflict, but a reaction to it, an attempt to give the tragedy a purpose - even if the consequence was to oblige the belligerents to go on fighting until victory. The volume tries to explain why - and for what - the contemporaries thought that they had to fight the Great War.
The Fourteen Points Speech
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-06-17
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781548159412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Squid Ink Classic includes the full text of the work plus MLA style citations for scholarly secondary sources, peer-reviewed journal articles and critical essays for when your teacher requires extra resources in MLA format for your research paper.
British Strategy and War Aims 1914-1916 (RLE First World War)
Author: David French
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1317686950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book illustrates the relationship between British military policy and the development of British war aims during the opening years of the First World War. Basing his work on a wide range of unpublished documentary sources, David French reassesses for the benefit of students and scholars alike what was meant by ‘a war of attrition’.
Germany's Aims in the First World War
Author: Fritz Fischer
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Published: 1968-09
Total Pages: 652
ISBN-13: 9780393097986
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA scholarly interpretation of Germany's policies and attitudes during the first World War and their profound effect on subsequent world events
Learning Empire
Author: Erik Grimmer-Solem
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-09-26
Total Pages: 669
ISBN-13: 1108483828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.
How We Fight
Author: Dominic Tierney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0803243960
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmericans love war. We’ve never run from a fight. Our triumphs from the American Revolution to World War II define who we are as a nation and a people. Americans hate war. Our leaders rush us into conflicts without knowing the facts or understanding the consequences. Korea, Vietnam, and now Iraq and Afghanistan define who we are as a nation and a people. How We Fight explores the extraordinary double-mindedness with which Americans approach war and articulates the opposing perspectives that have governed our responses throughout history: the “crusade” tradition, or our love of grand quests to defend democratic values and overthrow tyrants; and the “quagmire” tradition, or our resistance to the work of nation-building and its inevitable cost in dollars and American lives. How can one nation be so split? Studying conflicts from the Civil War to the present, Dominic Tierney uncovers the secret history of American foreign policy and provides a frank and insightful look at how Americans respond to the ultimate challenge. And he shows how U.S. military ventures can succeed. His innovative model for tackling the challenges of modern war suggests the possibility of enduring victory in Afghanistan and elsewhere by rediscovering a lost American warrior tradition.
America's Role in Nation-Building
Author: James Dobbins
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2003-08-01
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0833034863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe post-World War II occupations of Germany and Japan set standards for postconflict nation-building that have not since been matched. Only in recent years has the United States has felt the need to participate in similar transformations, but it is now facing one of the most challenging prospects since the 1940s: Iraq. The authors review seven case studies--Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan--and seek lessons about what worked well and what did not. Then, they examine the Iraq situation in light of these lessons. Success in Iraq will require an extensive commitment of financial, military, and political resources for a long time. The United States cannot afford to contemplate early exit strategies and cannot afford to leave the job half completed.
War Aims in the Second World War
Author: Victor Rothwell
Publisher: Societies at War
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the war aims of the key belligerents in World War II, including Germany, Britain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan and the USA, covers issues such as ideological aims, territorial expansion, national liberation or unification, commercial and colonial gain.
Why America Loses Wars
Author: Donald Stoker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-05-26
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1009220888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political aims and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to US political aims and strategy, Donald Stoker argues that America endures endless wars because its leaders no longer know how to think about war, particularly wars fought for limited aims, taking the nation to war without understanding what they want or valuing victory and thus the ending of the war. He reveals how flawed ideas on so-called 'limited war' and war in general evolved against the backdrop of American conflicts in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. These ideas, he shows, undermined America's ability to understand, wage, and win its wars, and to secure peace. Now fully updated to incorporate the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Why America Loses Wars dismantles seventy years of misguided thinking and lays the foundations for a new approach to the wars of tomorrow.
