TY - BOOK AU - Snyder,Jack L. TI - The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters Of 1914 T2 - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series SN - 9780801468629 AV - U162 U1 - 355.4/3/09034 PY - 1984/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Offensive (Military science) -- History -- 20th century KW - Military planning -- France -- History -- 20th century KW - Military planning -- Germany -- History -- 20th century KW - Military planning -- Soviet Union -- History -- 20th century KW - World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns KW - Electronic books N1 - The Ideology of the Offensive -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Military Bias and Offensive Strategy -- Rationality and Bias in Strategic Analysis -- Offense and Defense: A Rational Calculus -- Offensive Bias: Motivations and Interests -- Offensive Bias: The Need to Simplify -- The Synthesis: Organizational Ideology -- Method of Analysis -- Limitations and Qualifications -- 2. France: Offensive Strategy as an Institutional Defense -- Plan 17 -- Explaining the Intensity of French Bias -- 3. France: Du Picq, Dreyfus, and the Errors of Plan -- Ardant du Picq as Military Ideologist -- The Predominance of the Defensive in the 1870s -- Institutional Threat and Doctrinal Response in the 1880s -- Realism and Self-interest in the 1890s -- Subjugation and Reassertion, 1898-1911 -- Grandmaison, Joffre, and the Reassertive Reaction -- The Joffre Revival -- The Intelligence Failure of 1914 -- Conclusions -- 4. Germany: The Elusive Formula for Decisive Victory -- Premises and Risks of the Schlieffen Plan -- Explaining the General Staff's Bias -- 5. Germany: The "Necessary" Is Possible -- Moltke's Encirclement Doctrine -- Schlieffen's Strategic Doctrine -- Schlieffen's Planning for a Two-front War -- War Planning under the Younger Moltke -- Conclusions -- 6. Russia: Bureaucratic Politics and Strategic Priorities -- The Overcommitted Offenses of 1914 -- Explaining the Overcommitment -- 7ยท Russia: The Politics and Psychology of Overcommitment -- Danilov's Defensive Plan of 1910 -- Alekseev's Offensive Plan of 1912 -- The Response to Alekseev's Plan -- The Hasty Attack Strategy, 1913-1914 -- Creating a Third Front: August 1914 -- Conclusions -- 8. The Determinants of Military Strategy -- Determinants of Strategy: Five Patterns -- Determinants of Strategy: Comparisons -- Offense and the Security Dilemma -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index N2 - Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis that determines strategic doctrine, but also the attitudes of military planners UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138485 ER -