The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914

by Jack Snyder

Book Overview

Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies even though there was considerable evidence to support the notion that much greater advantage lay with defensive strategies. The author argues that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801482445
• ISBN13: 9780801482441
• Release Date: February 1989
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher