The road to total war
Examines the various factors that impelled leaders on both sides of the conflict in World War II to respond to immediate problems with actions resulting in effects that were often neither planned nor foreseen. Both Great Britain and Germany drifted into an escalation that ended in the wholesale bombardment of cities and civilian populations, when neither had originally planned any such action, and serves as the author's lesson to show us how decisionmakers can respond once more to provocations …
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- Full title :The road to total war / Frederick M. Sallagar.
Summary
Examines the various factors that impelled leaders on both sides of the conflict in World War II to respond to immediate problems with actions resulting in effects that were often neither planned nor foreseen. Both Great Britain and Germany drifted into an escalation that ended in the wholesale bombardment of cities and civilian populations, when neither had originally planned any such action, and serves as the author's lesson to show us how decisionmakers can respond once more to provocations and counterreactions. Emotional pressures, the fog of war, and judgments blurred by wishful thinking can produce decisions, even self-destructive decisions, and lead down an inexorable path to all-out, total war. More than thirty years after its initial publication, and to celebrate RAND's 60th Anniversary, RAND is proud to bring this classic work back into print in paperback and digital formats.
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- Publication Date:©1974, 2007.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):RAND Corp
- Place of Publication:Santa Monica, CA
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1974, 2007.
The Physical Object
- Description:xi, 196 pages ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0833042289, 9780833042286, 9780833048158, 0833048155
- oclc:ocn855307683
- LC Classification:D741
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Problem -- Prewar Developments -- Britain -- Prewar Developments -- Germany -- Blitzkrieg and Sitzkrieg -- The Transition to Total War -- Sowing the Wind -- Ends and Means -- The Whirlwind -- Epilogue -- The Asymmetrical Attitudes of the Two Sides -- Pressures for Escalation.
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