Ни к одной стране судьба не была так жестока, как к России. Её корабль пошел ко дну, когда гавань была в виду. Она уже претерпела бурю, когда все обрушилось. Все жертвы были уже принесены, вся работа завершена. Отчаяние и измена овладели властью, когда задача была уже выполнена. – Уинстон Черчилль Но даже полная немецкая победа […]
Вторая Отечественная Война
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Prophets of the Great War: Friedrich Engels, Ivan Bloch, and Pyotr Durnovo
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Though there are plenty of caveats and exceptions, it is safe to generalize that predictions of what the “next war” was going to be like before 1914 were completely inaccurate. The Great War would not be the quick, clean affair typical of the wars of German unification in the 1860’s-70’s or the sensationalist literature of the […]
The Genesis of Total War
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In the summer of 1914, the world was integrated as never before. Despite its simmering tensions and conscript armies, the European continent had open borders, a shared respect for private property and rule of law, and dynastic ties that bound its monarchs together – most poignantly represented by the pageantry surrounding the funeral of Edward […]
