EI Weekly Listen — The impact of the First World War on strategy by Hew Strachan
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The Importance of the Cold War
In the interwar years, total war became part of the language of warning. It was assumed that after 1918, wars between great powers would always be total wars. Winston Churchill in Britain and Yossif Goebbels in Germany used the phrase Total War to mobilize their people. The big unanswered question since the end of the Cold War has been how necessary the image of World War remains to international order.
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