The Ideology of the Offensive
Subtitle: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914 (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: March 1989
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9789999548151
Subjects: Military History - World War I
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.