scholarly journals VODENJE IN POVELJEVANJE V 12. SOŠKI OFENZIVI

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
VALERIJA BERNIK
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
First World War ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
Traditional Model ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
New Model ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Povzetek Vodilni na evropskih generalštabih so med prvo svetovno vojno uporabljali tradicionalni način vodenja in poveljevanja, ki je od podrejenih zahteval predvsem poslušnost ter natančno izpolnjevanje ukazov. Na bojišču se je kmalu pokazalo, da je bil tak sistem za vodenje vojsk neprimeren in vzrok za marsikatero zamujeno priložnost. Prvi so novosti v vodenju in poveljevanju uvedli Nemci ter jih v praksi uspešno preizkusili v 12. soški ofenzivi. Ključne besede 12. soška ofenziva, vojaško vodenje in poveljevanje, kabinetno poveljevanje, poveljevanje s poslanstvom – Auftragstaktik. Abstract In the period of the First World War, European general staff leaders used the traditional model of military leadership and command, which demanded from their subordinates obedience and precise fulfilment of commands. The situation in the battlefields soon showed that the system was inappropriate and resulted in many lost opportunities. The Germans were the first to use a new model of military leadership and command and they tested it in the Twelfth Isonzo Offensive. Key words: Twelfth Isonzo Offensive, military leadership and command, chateau generalship, mission command – Auftragstaktik.

Report from Paris. The German Military Attaché in France, Detlof von Winterfeldt, and his views of the French Army, 1909–1914

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-494
Author(s):  
Lukas Grawe
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Military Leadership ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
French Army ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Military Planning ◽  
First World

Although historiography often attributes the German military leadership a high responsibility for the outbreak of the First World War, the action of the German military attaché in Paris, Detlof von Winterfeldt, has so far been ignored. This article shows how Winterfeldt assessed the strengths and weaknesses of the French army and describes how his reporting influenced the General Staff’s evaluations in Berlin. It examines the concrete effects of his reporting on German military policies and military planning before 1914 to ascertain whether the General Staff relied on Winterfeldt’s reports and if so, what difference they made.

scholarly journals DOCTRINE AND ORGANIZATION IN THE BRITISH ARMY, 1919–1932

2001 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 497-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID FRENCH
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Process ◽  
First World War ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
British Military ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Great War ◽  
First World ◽  
Common Understanding

It is widely assumed that after 1918 the British general staff ignored the experience it had gained from fighting a first-class European enemy and that it was not until the establishment of the Kirke committee in 1932 that it began to garner the lessons of the Great War and incorporate them into its doctrine. This article demonstrates that in fact British military doctrine underwent a continuous process of development in the 1920s. Far from turning its back on new military technologies, the general staff rejected the manpower-intensive doctrine that had sustained the army in 1914 in favour of one that placed modernity and machinery at the very core of its thinking. Between 1919 and 1931 the general staff did assimilate the lessons of the First World War into the army's written doctrine. But what it failed to do was to impose a common understanding of the meaning of that doctrine throughout the army.

scholarly journals O front como experiência da temporalidade: crise da civilização, falência representacional e alteridade

2006 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Henrique Armani
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
First World War ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Esse artigo é um estudo introdutório ao pensamento de alguns intelectuais – sobretudo Eric Maria Remarque – que viveram durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial e testemunharam um período histórico profundamente conturbado pela violência e morte – a experiência da temporalidade. Para tal estudo, eu investigarei três tópicos no pensamento desses autores: a crise da idéia de civilização; os limites da representação como categoria cognitiva e a questão da alteridade. Abstract This article is an introductory study about the thought of some intellectuals – above all Erich Maria Remarque – who lived the First World War and witnessed an historical period deeply disturbed by violence and death – the experience of temporality. For this study, I will investigate three topics in the thought of those intellectuals: the crisis of civilization idea; the limits of representation as cognitive category and the question of alterity. Palavras-chave: Primeira Guerra Mundial. História. Temporalidade. Key words: First World War. History. Temporality.

Krise und Gemeinschaft

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Community Building ◽  
German Literature ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
First World

Stefan George's "Der Stern des Bundes" is one of the most provocative and unusual works of poetry in the history of German literature. Here, on the eve of the First World War, George unfolds social, religious, poetic, personal, philosophical and even economic issues. Members of Georges´s famous "circle" as well as his contemporaries perceived of the "Stern des Bundes" as a prediction of coming catastrophes and a warning, as a stimulus for peaceful and intimate community building in the face of great crises and as a reaffirmation of a hopeful outlook towards a shared world. Krise und Gemeinschaft assembles introductory and survey articles, contributions to key words from the “Stern”, and interpretations of key poems. It is especially aimed at readers who are still unfamiliar with the "Stern".

The Imperial General Staff, Military Education, Army Apostles, and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1904–1914

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas E. Delaney
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
First World War ◽  
Military Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
The People ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
And Training

Much of the ‘heavy-lifting’ to standardize the armies of the empire was completed during the relatively brief period 1904–14. Common military education and training were vital to the process, starting at the centre then extending to the disparate parts. The Imperial General Staff drew mostly from the list of staff college graduates and so did the dominions and India when it came to building their own general staff ‘sections’ and training their armies. But the dominions were only just starting to send their officers to imperial staff colleges and their permanent forces were tiny, so they required the services of staff-trained imperial officers to make up deficiencies and, more importantly, ensure that they were developing in ways that were compatible with the other armies of the empire. Chapter 2 analyses the people and policies that did much to standardize the armies of the empire during the decade that preceded the First World War

Some Reflections on Conrad von Hötzendorf and His Memoirs based on Old and New Sources

1965 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 74-89
Author(s):  
Fritz Fellner
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Few memoirs are as rich in detail as those of Field Marshal Count Francis Conrad von Hötzendorf, chief of the Austro-Hungarian general staff from 1906 to 1911 and from 1912 until 1917. The numerous documents cited in the text and appended to each of the volumes make Conrad's memoirs an invaluable source for historians interested in Austro-Hungarian diplomatic, political, and military developments prior to and during the early months of the first World War.

scholarly journals Soška fronta skozi oči vojaka in pisatelja Andreja Čeboklija

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2018) (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jožica Čeh Steger
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
First World War ◽  
English Summary ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Career ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: Isonzo front, Andrej Čebokli, war diary, short prose Excerpt: In this article are presented Čebokli's diary from the First World War and his short prose, with a special emphasis on the verbalisation of the terrible consequences of the war, especially on the Isonzo front. Andrej Čebokli (1893–1923), a countryman of Gorica, voluntarily enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian armed forces at the beginning of the First World War. He was on various fronts of the First World War and reached a brilliant military career. In 1916 he found himself on the Isonzo front. From the first day of his military service until 1919, he continually wrote a diary, in which he thought about the cruel consequences of the war on the front and in the hinterland, described the beauty of the local landscape, worked literary plans, believed in the near-disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was impressed by the October Revolution.

Ludwig Beck: Loyalty and Resistance

1981 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 332-350 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World

Ludwig beck was born in Biebrich on the Rhine in 1880. He joined No. 15 Prussian Field Artillery Regiment in Strassburg in 1898, attended the War Academy in Berlin from 1908 to 1911, was called into the Great General Staff in 1912, served in general-staff positions through the First World War, and held troop-command and staff positions after the war. From October 1929 to September 1931, as a colonel, he commanded No. 5 Artillery Regiment in Fulda, Ludwigsburg, and Ulm; from October 1932 to September 1933 he commanded the First Cavalry Division in Frankfurt an der Oder.

scholarly journals Slovenska Koroška 1917: med fronto in zaledjem

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2018) (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinko Skitek
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Scientific Paper ◽  
First World War ◽  
English Summary ◽  
World War ◽  
Southwestern Part ◽  
War Economy ◽  
The First World War ◽  
First World ◽  
The Church

Category: 1.01 Original scientific paper Language: Original in Slovenian (Abstract in Slovenian and English, Summary in English) Key words: Carinthia, First World War, Economy, the Church, May declaration, Carinthian Slovenians, 1917 Abstract: In this paper the author considers the position of the Land of Carinthia during the First World War with emphasis on the year 1917. Firstly, he exposes the hinterland position of Carinthia, which was drastically altered by the entry of Italy into the war in 1915 on the side of the Entente powers. On the Austro-Hungarian-Italian border, a new frontline was formed which ran along the River Isonzo over mountain tops all the way to the Swiss border. A part of the frontline also ran across the southwestern part of Carinthia, where the areas most affected by Italian barrages were the Kanal and upper Zilja valleys. In the rest of Carinthia all was geared towards supporting the army on the battlefield. At the same time the authorities, by limiting personal freedoms, triggered persecution of Slovenian priests, who were often sent to prison over deliberate fabrications.

The Eastern Front

2018 ◽  
pp. 11-26
Author(s):  
Hew Strachan
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
General Staff ◽  
The West ◽  
Eastern Front ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Long Time ◽  
First World

In this chapter Hew Strachan contends that the eastern front has long been unjustifiably neglected by researchers. This stems from the fact that for a long time before the start of the First World War, the Great General Staff considered Russia the main enemy. The paradox that Germany, because of its central role in a war against Russia and its French ally, intended to attack first in the west and then in the east, is explained in light of the geopolitical thesis of the British geographer and geopolitical theorist Halford Mackinder as it applies to the geographical conditions of Russia.

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