The Archive · 1914

How War Was to Be Waged

With regard to the conduct of war it says: "Disturbances must be stirred up in Norther Africa and Russia by means of secret agents This will absorb the forces of the enemy. In the next European war the small States must be forced to follow us or be cowed."

That y must forestall Russia at all costs or she would have to maintain so strong a force on het eastern frontier that she would be in a state of inferiority to France, "therefore we must forestall our principal adversary immediately. There are nine chances in ten that we are going to have war and we must begin war without waiting, in order brutally to crush all resist-

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