books.google.co.in - Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War offers new insight into the tragic miscalculations of that era and into their possible parallels in present-day war planning. By 1914, the European military powers had adopted offensive military strategies...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Ideology_of_the_Offensive.html?id=QvIfZaA3sq4C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Ideology of the Offensive