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4 giorni fa · According to his memoirs written after the war, the Chief of the German General Staff, Erich von Falkenhayn, believed that although victory might no longer be achieved by a decisive battle, the French army could still be defeated if it suffered a sufficient number of casualties.
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2 giorni fa · Erich von Falkenhayn served as the Chief of the German General Staff from 1914 to 1916. He played a significant role in shaping Germany‘s military strategy during the early years of World War I, advocating for a war of attrition against France.
5 giorni fa · John Maurer has explored the place of deterrence and deterrence failure in the international system. And, in Holger Afflerbach's study of Erich von Falkenhayn, we have seen a major re-evaluation of the part played in promoting conflict by one of the key military figures of this period.
4 giorni fa · Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff replaced Chief of the General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn on 19 August 1916, during "the most serious crisis of the war". On 2 September the new leadership ordered a strict defensive at Verdun and the dispatch of forces from there to reinforce the Somme and Romanian fronts.
5 giorni fa · Despite considerable debate among German staff officers, General Erich von Falkenhayn, the head of Oberste Heeresleitung (OHL, the supreme command of the German Army) insisted on a tactic of rigid defence of the front line in 1916 and implied after the war that the psychology of German soldiers, shortage of manpower and lack of ...
4 giorni fa · In December 1914, Erich von Falkenhayn, the commander-in-chief of the German Army went to the Kaiser and urged him to negotiate a peace treaty with the Entente states following the First Battle of the Marne.
5 giorni fa · The Germans, led by Generals Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff, used superior tactics and rail mobility to encircle Samsonov's forces. The encirclement resulted in the near-complete destruction of the Russian Second Army, with Russian casualties including about 30,000 killed or wounded and 92,000 captured.
