Military Strategy and the Origins of the First World War: An International Security Reader - Revised and Expanded Edition

These five essays from the prestigious journal International Security analyze the outbreak of the First World War from the standpoint of power politics and military strategy. "The disaster of 1914 continues to haunt the contemporary security debate," writes Steven E. Miller in his introduction. "In the nuclear age, the images that remain from the summer of 1914—the escalation from an isolated event in a far corner of Europe to a global war, the apparent loss of control of the situation by k...