This is a study of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to World War I. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, the book draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England and Italy to show the effects of changes in the strength of European armies during this period. It also provides an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the 20th century in the decade before 1914, ...
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This is a study of how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to World War I. Instead of emphasizing the naval arms race, the book draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England and Italy to show the effects of changes in the strength of European armies during this period. It also provides an account of how the European armies adopted the new weaponry of the 20th century in the decade before 1914, including quick-firing artillery, machine guns, motor transport and aircraft. In a narrative account that runs from the beginning of a series of international crises in 1904 until the outbreak of the war, the author points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. Russia was incapable of waging a European war after its defeat at the hands of Japan in 1904-5, but in 1912, when Russia appeared to be regaining its capacity to fight, an unprecedented land-armaments race began. Consequently, when the July crisis of 1914 developed, the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.
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I found David G. Herrmann's book to be both interesting and very informative. It delved deeply into an area of history in which I previously had little knowledge. I found Herrmann's view of the interaction between military and diplomatic spheres of the European nations in the decade preceding the Great War, fascinating. I feel that students of diplomatic history as much or more, than students of military history could appreciate Herrmann's book.
In his discussion, Herrmann weaves an examination of the development and preparedness of armies of the Great Powers against a backdrop of successive political crises. He points to the fluctuations in the balance of military power caused by these crises and the Great Powers reaction to them, to explain why the war began in 1914, instead of at some other time. He bases his thesis on extensive documentary research into the military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy, to identify and quantify the previously unexplored effects of the changes in the strength of the European armies in the last decade prior to the Great War. I appreciate and admire the depth of Herrmann's research, and find and his collation of historical data in several languages impressive.
