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Alternatively, I've heard opposing viewpoints that experiences from the US Civil War clearly foreshadowed what would happen in WW1.
by corebit 8y ago
Alternatively, I've heard opposing viewpoints that experiences from the US Civil War clearly foreshadowed what would happen in WW1.
- thrower123 8y agoSimilarly, the experiences of the Russo-Japanese War foreshadowed much of what would later occur in 1915-1918. However, in opposition to these instances stood the Franco-Prussian War, which was the kind of quick, decisive maneuver conflict that informed much of the initial planning for war, particularly the infamous Schlieffen Plan. The campaign on the Western Front in 1914 was really a closely run thing. If the dice had fallen slightly differently, and a few decisions had been made differently, then von Kluk's First Army might have been parading down the Champs-Élysées and the war really would have been over before Christmas.