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Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction; Bibliography; Chapter 2 The Problems of 1866: Tactics, Weapons, and Money; Casting Aside the Blame; Recognizing Reality; Breech-Loader Versus Shock Tactics; Strategic Failure and Permanent Fortifications; Flawed Leadership and Unrealistic Training; Spending Unwisely; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3 1866-1876: First Steps Toward Progress; Early Measures and Self-Awareness; Procuring a Breech-Loader; Tactical Debate: Infantry; Tactical Debate: Cavalry; Cordon Strategy; Budgetary Imprudence; Restructuring and Rivalry.
Ausgleich and WehrgesetzRaising Intellectual Levels: One Year Volunteers and Military Schools; Raising Intellectual Levels: Military Journals; Raising Intellectual Levels: Promotion Regulations; Rivalry and Reform; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Adapting in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Lessons from the Russo-Turkish War; Recognizing Railroad Advantages; The Bosnia-Hercegovina Campaign; Difficulties of Counterinsurgency; Adapting Tactics: Infantry and Cavalry; Adapting Tactics: Steel-Bronze Artillery; Non-Adapting Strategy: Permanent Fortresses; Civil-Military Criticism.
Self-Criticism, Recognition, and Learning LessonsParliamentary Criticism and Favor; Fruits of Victory: Public and Parliamentary Approval; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5 From Progress to Reversion; Repeater Rifles and Tactics; Conrad's Offensive Tactics and the 1889 Infantry Regulations; Military Education: Intellectual Training and Tactics; Tactical and Numerical Disconnection; The Realistic View; Cavalry Tactics: Shock Versus Reconnaissance; Artillery: Tactics and Numbers; Permanent Waste: The Cordon System; Parliamentary Favor; Stability in the High Command.
Albrecht: Voice of Tactical ReasonConclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Financial Shock: Conradian Tactics and Wasteful Spending; Solution for Numerical Inferiority: Morale; Conradian Tactics: The Superior Morale of the Offensive; Conradian Influence: The Kriegsschule and the Officer Corps; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Boer War; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War; New Infantry Regulations: Conradian Offensive; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Balkan Wars; Cavalry Tactics: Theory and Practice; Artillery: Insufficient Numbers and Quality.
Financial Imprudence: Permanent FortificationsFinancial Imprudence: The Navy; Parliamentary Favor; Financial Imprudence: Tank Rejection; The High Command: Stability and Views of Technology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The Catastrophe of the Offensive; Prewar Strategy: Austro-Hungarian Offensives and the Schlieffen Plan; Disaster in Galicia; Cavalry Failure; Przemyśl: Permanent Failure; Gorlice-Tarnów: German Support and Success; Naval Weakness; Serbian Campaign: Debacle and Disgrace; The Results of Catastrophe; More Offensives; The Italian Menace.
Ausgleich and WehrgesetzRaising Intellectual Levels: One Year Volunteers and Military Schools; Raising Intellectual Levels: Military Journals; Raising Intellectual Levels: Promotion Regulations; Rivalry and Reform; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Adapting in Bosnia-Hercegovina; Lessons from the Russo-Turkish War; Recognizing Railroad Advantages; The Bosnia-Hercegovina Campaign; Difficulties of Counterinsurgency; Adapting Tactics: Infantry and Cavalry; Adapting Tactics: Steel-Bronze Artillery; Non-Adapting Strategy: Permanent Fortresses; Civil-Military Criticism.
Self-Criticism, Recognition, and Learning LessonsParliamentary Criticism and Favor; Fruits of Victory: Public and Parliamentary Approval; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5 From Progress to Reversion; Repeater Rifles and Tactics; Conrad's Offensive Tactics and the 1889 Infantry Regulations; Military Education: Intellectual Training and Tactics; Tactical and Numerical Disconnection; The Realistic View; Cavalry Tactics: Shock Versus Reconnaissance; Artillery: Tactics and Numbers; Permanent Waste: The Cordon System; Parliamentary Favor; Stability in the High Command.
Albrecht: Voice of Tactical ReasonConclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Financial Shock: Conradian Tactics and Wasteful Spending; Solution for Numerical Inferiority: Morale; Conradian Tactics: The Superior Morale of the Offensive; Conradian Influence: The Kriegsschule and the Officer Corps; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Boer War; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War; New Infantry Regulations: Conradian Offensive; Failure to Learn: Lessons of the Balkan Wars; Cavalry Tactics: Theory and Practice; Artillery: Insufficient Numbers and Quality.
Financial Imprudence: Permanent FortificationsFinancial Imprudence: The Navy; Parliamentary Favor; Financial Imprudence: Tank Rejection; The High Command: Stability and Views of Technology; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7 The Catastrophe of the Offensive; Prewar Strategy: Austro-Hungarian Offensives and the Schlieffen Plan; Disaster in Galicia; Cavalry Failure; Przemyśl: Permanent Failure; Gorlice-Tarnów: German Support and Success; Naval Weakness; Serbian Campaign: Debacle and Disgrace; The Results of Catastrophe; More Offensives; The Italian Menace.