Author: David G. Herrmann
Publisher/Publication: Princeton University Press
DOI/ISBN: 0-691-3374-9
Abstract: The author of this book examines how land-based military power influenced international affairs during the series of diplomatic crises that led up to the First Word War. Herrmann draws on documentary research in military and state archives in Germany, France, Austria, England, and Italy to show the previously unexplored effects of changes in the strength of the European armies during this period. The author points to changes in the balance of military power to explain why the war began in 1914, as the atmosphere of military competition made war a far more likely outcome than it would have been a decade earlier.