
The Schlieffen Plan
In the decades before World War I, all the European powers had secret plans to defend against invasion or to make preemptive strikes against their enemies. In Germany, the main war plan was the Schli...
18 Heinä 201213min

Terror in Sarajevo
Otto von Bismarck once predicted that some “foolish” thing in the Balkans would start a major war in Europe – and he would prove correct in this belief. In an age of entangling alliances between nati...
21 Kesä 201214min



















