Pre-war military planning (Austria-Hungary)
- Austria-Hungary’s General Staff enjoyed a monopoly on war planning. Its long-time Chief Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf worked hard to improve the Habsburg Monarchy’s war preparations and the basic features of Austro-Hungarian war plans were shaped by his ideas. The unfavorable strategic situation and inadequate military resources made it particularly difficult to conceive coherent plans for deployment and operations. Gripped by notions of the supremacy of the offensive, the Viennese General Staff failed to take the consequences of modern firepower and the importance of logistics properly into account.
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| Author: | Günther KronenbitterGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-1133168 |
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/113316 |
| Parent Title (English): | 1914-1918-online: international encyclopedia of the First World War |
| Publisher: | Freie Universität Berlin |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Editor: | Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, Bill Nasson |
| Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2024/06/05 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2016 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2024/06/05 |
| Issue: | 21.06.2016 |
| Edition: | Online-Ressource |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.15463/ie1418.10922 |
| Institutes: | Philologisch-Historische Fakultät |
| Philologisch-Historische Fakultät / Europäische Ethnologie / Volkskunde | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 9 Geschichte und Geografie / 90 Geschichte / 900 Geschichte und Geografie |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0: Creative Commons - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitung (mit Print on Demand) |
