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Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism

School of War

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The Importance of Accommodation in the First World War

The great powers in 1914 didn't sleep walk into war that they indeed I mean if they had foreseen the future between 1914 and 1918 and seen the costs none of them would have elected for a conflict. In general there was a sense that you know you could you could fight a war and win it Germany thought it was going to win the war that's that's why it launches the war what am I missing here about the start of the First World War?

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