The Causes of WarThe peace that passeth understanding -- Paradise is a bazaar -- Dreams and delusions of a coming war -- While waterbirds fight -- Death-watch and scapegoat wars -- War chests and pulse beats -- A calendar of war -- The abacus of power -- War as an accident -- Aims and arms -- A day that lives in infamy -- Vendetta of the Black Sea -- Long wars -- And shorter wars -- The mystery of wide wars -- Australia's Pacific war -- Myths of the nuclear era -- War, peace and neutrality. |
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... expected the war to be swift , but can it explain why they expected it to be victorious as well as swift ? In a mind's picture of a forth- coming war the likely duration of the fighting and its likely outcome are almost inseparable ...
... expected the war to be swift , but can it explain why they expected it to be victorious as well as swift ? In a mind's picture of a forth- coming war the likely duration of the fighting and its likely outcome are almost inseparable ...
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... expected a painful victory but the Empress Eugénie and most French ministers seem to have expected a swift vic- tory . One ironic mirror of expectations within the French army was that the officers had been issued with maps of Ger- many ...
... expected a painful victory but the Empress Eugénie and most French ministers seem to have expected a swift vic- tory . One ironic mirror of expectations within the French army was that the officers had been issued with maps of Ger- many ...
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... expected victory though only one of the nations expected quick victory ; and on the eve of some wars one side expected swift victory while the other side held a humbler definition of victory and fought in the belief that it could avoid ...
... expected victory though only one of the nations expected quick victory ; and on the eve of some wars one side expected swift victory while the other side held a humbler definition of victory and fought in the belief that it could avoid ...
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The Peace that Passeth Understanding | 3 |
Paradise is a Bazaar | 18 |
Dreams and Delusions of a Coming War | 35 |
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