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Hace 3 días · According to Otte, the military links between Berlin and Vienna were subordinated to civilian leadership, and the ‘blank cheque’ issued to Austrian General Chief of Staff Franz Conrad von Hotzendorf from his German counterpart Helmuth von Moltke, which allowed Vienna to resolve its Balkan crisis through force, initially incubated ...
Hace 4 días · Calhoun, though, said such military terminology goes back further than that, to the mid-19th century and the Prussian general staff under Helmuth von Moltke the Elder.
Hace 4 días · While widely accepted now, doctrine did not appear until the mid-nineteenth century. Its origins lie in the Prussian Army, whose brilliant theorist Field Marshal Helmuth von Moltke employed it with devastating advantage against similarly armed and organised European opponents.
Hace 4 días · Schlieffen’s plan was executed by his successor Helmuth von Moltke in August 1914, with some modifications. The Netherlands was not invaded; more troops than planned were kept in Alsace-Lorraine to defend it against a French offensive; and 250,000 troops were diverted to East Prussia to help fend off an unexpectedly speedy Russian ...
Hace 2 días · The famed strategist Helmuth von Moltke once said that “no plan survives contact with the enemy”, and this is as true of politics as war. Even if a party goes into a campaign with a carefully prepared grid (and there’s little sign of that), over six weeks it will be at the mercy of both the other side and, even less predictably, outside events.
Hace 3 días · Helmuth von Moltke here examines Franco-German relations from the fall of the Roman Empire to undercut narratives then emanating from France. Holland and Belgium in their Mutual Relations was published in a brochure format in 1831, while he was working in the topographical section of the General Staff and following his reaching the rank of second lieutenant.
Hace 21 horas · Schlieffen recommended him as Chief of the General Staff in 1909, but he lost out to Helmuth von Moltke. He retired in 1911 "to make way for younger men". He had been in the army for 46 years, including 14 years in General Staff positions. During his career, Hindenburg did not have political ambitions and remained a staunch monarchist.
