Clausewitz defines victory as overcoming your opponent’s will to resist in order to force him to accept your geo-political position/policy. (CL 94) Clausewitz also correctly points out that both combatants define victory and peace. Even within the pure warfare‚ the defeated gets a vote. (CL 80) Bartholomees broaden the participants to include the perception of noncombatants. (Barth p 31) Both would agree unless the victor is considering a Carthage like solutions‚ defeated people can resist in
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warfare by the German navy was unequivocally a breach of the rules of war. In early 1915‚ Germany controversially declared the waters surrounding Britain a war zone and threatened to sink all merchant ships approaching Britain even those from neutral countries. It was irrational to believe neutral countries would halt trade with Britain as that would result in huge economic losses. Several merchant ships including the British ship Lusitania were mercilessly and unjustly shot down by German U-Boat submarines
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to the North Sea‚ World War One began very much as a war of mobility and movement. The Germans utilized the Schlieffen Plan‚ which quickly mobilized German forces using the built up rail system in their country to move troops to the western front and then march troops up through Belgium in an attempt to overwhelm France. The German’s master plan wasn’t without its faults. The plan was built for quick victories and didn’t account for delays in movement time‚ how many troops would be needed to occupy
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War on the Western Front Reasons for the stalemate on the Western Front (217 Words) There was a clear expectation that WW1 would be a quick‚ offensive military war over by Christmas. Introduction of new technology such as munitions and tanks changed the structure of war as many were not prepared for modern warfare. Millions of men participated in war along with vast numbers of horses and later trucks‚ there was a great need for food and medical supplies however‚ it was hard to sustain. There were
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Was Allied Leadership Effective? By Isaac Ng World war one started in 1914 when the prince of Austria-Hungary was assassinated‚ supposedly by the Serbians‚ This led to Austria-Hungary declaring war on Serbia and causing all of the allying countries to join in‚ such as Russia‚ Britain‚ France and Germany. The ally between the Germans and the Austria-Hungarians was called the Axis while the ally between Russia‚ Britain‚ and France was called the Allied Leadership. Many historians believe that the
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After World War II‚ the Allied countries were all the countries where the now-defunct Axis countries used to have influence. When the war ended‚ the Allied countries immediately occupied the Axis countries just to be more careful. They did not want another war like World War II to occur. Because of this‚ the Allied countries immediately split Germany into four sections‚ and each one occupied by a major Allied power. The Allied occupation of Germany affects us today because it led to another war-
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frontal assaults against fortified machine guns. Although the effects were not greatly realized during WWI‚ the advancements made in tank technology were immeasurably important in the progression of modern warfare and arguably essential to the Allied victory. While the technology is fairly recent‚ the concepts involved in the tank have existed for years. Leonardo Da Vinci actually drew blueprints for an armored vehicle in 1487. Tanks have also been compared to Hanibal’s elephants or even ancient
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An Eon of Victory English and Century---2 words with different meaning but are related enough to make the new generation more productive. English language as the means of communication and Century‚ 21st Century where new discoveries were discovered. As the 21st Century arises‚ English language plays very important roles in different fields. In education‚ technology‚ science and researches‚ medicine‚ and even in the government. In education- books! Massive quantities of most popular and famous
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France and had won a stunning victory (HistoryNet Editor‚ 2007). He was hoping history would repeat itself and catch the Allies by surprise and it ended up working. The Germans also used the weather to their advantage because they knew they could attack the allies without having to worry about the Air Force if there was a
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Rosa Maldonado Vera Why did the USSR Collapse in 1991? In December of 1991‚ the Soviet Union broke down into fifteen separate countries. The west saw this collapse as a victory for freedom‚ a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism‚ and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States were glad that its enemy was brought to its knees. The Cold War‚ which had confronted these two superpowers since the end of World War II‚ had ended. The breakup of the Soviet Union
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