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Moltke, Schllieffen and Prussian War Planning

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Since Germany was the only state in Europe created and destroyed in less than a century by war, an analysis of its war planning system is crucial to a proper understanding of 19th and 20th century German history. This book analyses the first deep-future orientated war planning system, which originated in the Kingdom of Prussia in the early 19th century. Prussia offers a unique case history because of the role its war mechanisms assumed within the bureaucratic forms of the modernising state. Validated in the wars of German ...

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Moltke, Schllieffen and Prussian War Planning 1993, Berg Publishers, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780854968893

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