The Ideology of the Offensive
Subtitle: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: March 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780801482441
Subjects: European history: First World War; Military tactics; World history: First World War; Military History - World War I; History - Military / War; Europe; Military - Strategy
First sentence: All of the major continental powers entered World War I with offensive strategies; all suffered huge strategic costs when, predictably, their offensives failed to achieve their ambitious aims.