North Korea, Ballistic missles, and us

[Dondilion]

Originally Posted by JCricket

My studies have never shown Germany as the instigator of WWI. This is why I had to ask. I have often looked at that book, one day soon I will actually read it.

Europe stumbled into that meat grinder because of entangled alliances.

[JCricket]

Originally Posted by Dondilion

Europe stumbled into that meat grinder because of entangled alliances.

That is what I learned.

[nailer]

Originally Posted by JCricket

That is what I learned.

There was an arc of four Prussian/German wars of aggression beginning with the Austro-Prussian War and ending with WWII. The Great War was the third. Massie's Dreadnought provides insight into Imperial Germany being the aggressor that led to WWI. The first volume of Churchill's WWI history is also insightful. Nobody wanted to fight the Germans yet somehow the Germans stumbled into fighting a two front war and they even invaded France via Belgium knowing it would bring GB in. The Großer Generalstab was over confident and the German Emperor was a fool.