A Counsel of Despair: British Strategy and War Aims, 1917–18
A Counsel of Despair: British Strategy and War Aims, 1917–18
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绝望的忠告：英国战略和战争目标，1917-18
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2001
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B. Millman
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B. Millman
1917年，在经历了一年的灾难和失望之后，英国战争政策的指导前提发生了变化。在未来，这场战争的目标将不再是取得胜利，而是让英国处于尽可能好的地位，以求在一场没有结果的战争中幸存下来，或许是一场失败。这一新愿景的运动与1916年12月之后政府的更迭、制定战争政策的新方法的运动以及军队人员的变动有关。这一新的战争政策反过来又催生了组成部分政策，事实证明，这些政策基本上与战争的实际进程无关，但后果巨大。
In 1917, after a year of disasters and disappointments, the guiding premises upon which Britain's war policy was founded shifted. The war, in the future, would no longer be directed toward achieving victory, which few believed possible, but toward putting Britain in the best possible position to survive an inconclusive war, perhaps a defeat. The movement to this new vision was associated with the change of government, after December 1916, with the movement to new ways of making war policy, and with changes in personnel in the army. This new war policy, in turn, spawned component policies which proved largely irrelevant to the actual course of the war but which were of enormous consequence.