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Article: German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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German Strategy and the Path to Verdun: Erich von Falkenhayn and the Development of Attrition, 1870-1916. By Robert T. Foley. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 301. $70.00.)
This study places the strategy of Erich von Falkenhayn in the context of military ideas circulating in Germany from the Franco-Prussian War to 1914. Robert T. Foley contends that the attrition plans pursued by this chief of the German army's wartime General Staff did not depart sharply from a military tradition of short, decisive wars. Instead, the tradition itself was complex and nuanced, and Falkenhayn drew on many elements in it. Using a wealth of Prussian and German ...