World War I
by David Newell
1. exercise
1.1. Grand
1.2. Strategy
1.3. Operational
1.4. Tactical
2. SunZi says...
2.1. "In joining battle, seek the quick victory. If battle is protracted, your weapons will be blunted and your troops demoralized..If your armies are kept in the field for a long time, your national reserves will not suffice....Thus in war, I have heard tell of a foolish haste, but I have yet to see a case of cleverly dragging on the hostilities"
2.2. "There has never been a state that has benefited from an extended war."
3. Uncle Karl says..
3.1. "Since war is not an act of senseless passion but is controlled by the political object, the value of this object must determine the sacrifices made for it in magnitude and also in duration. Once the expenditure of effort exceeds the value of the political object the object must be renounced and peace must follow."
3.2. Every combat is therefore the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror
4. Opening Thoughts
4.1. Opening Thoughts
4.2. Before: "The Duke of Wellington
4.2.1. Propaganda
4.2.2. Propaganda
4.3. World War I Changed the Very Idea of War
4.3.1. Paths of Glory, 1917 Nevinson, British
4.3.2. Over the Top, 1918, Nash, British
4.3.3. After, The Needlessness of War, Dix, Germany, 1932
4.3.4. Even profoundly changed our understanding of the mind......
4.3.5. Psychotherapy