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The Civil-Military Fabric of Weimar Foreign Policy / Gaines Post.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1651Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1973Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780691619071
  • 9781400870745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.43
LOC classification:
  • DD240
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Years òf Stability, 1924-29: Policy in the Foreign Office -- CHAPTER I. Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER II. The West: Force and Foreign Policy -- Part II. The Years of Stability, 1924-29: The Military and Joint Planning -- CHAPTER III. Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER IV. The West -- CHAPTER V. Force and Foreign Policy: Rearmament -- CHAPTER VI. Force and Foreign Policy: Operations -- CHAPTER VII. The Navy -- Part ΙII. The Years if Crisis, 1930-33 -- CHAPTER VIII. Policy in the Foreign Office -- CHAPTER IX. The Military and Joint Planning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the historiographic debate over Germany's responsibility for the outbreak of the two world wars, little attention has been paid to German politico- military activity in the Weimar Republic. Although Weimar diplomats and military leaders emphasized the interconnection and developed ideas and procedures for joint planning, historians have usually treated the foreign and military affairs of the republic separately. Gaines Post, Jr., however, examines the relationship between foreign policy and military planning, and charts its directions and changes to develop a model of German civil-military relations which sheds light on the general problem of modern civil-military relations.He shows that diplomats and military leaders shared assumptions about the role of force in foreign policy and the subordination of the military arm to the political leadership, and that they collaborated in assessing Germany's strategic situation, in rearmament, and in operational exercises. In the 1920's, interdepartmental cooperation between the foreign office and the Defense Ministry became the foundation of a stable system of civil-military relations. The system broke down during the crisis period of 1930-1933 because of mounting institutional pressures.The author demonstrates how, in both periods, civilian and military leaders viewed military force not simply as an instrument of national self-defense, but as an acceptable means of attaining national goals, above all the revision of the German-Polish borders.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. The Years òf Stability, 1924-29: Policy in the Foreign Office -- CHAPTER I. Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER II. The West: Force and Foreign Policy -- Part II. The Years of Stability, 1924-29: The Military and Joint Planning -- CHAPTER III. Eastern Europe -- CHAPTER IV. The West -- CHAPTER V. Force and Foreign Policy: Rearmament -- CHAPTER VI. Force and Foreign Policy: Operations -- CHAPTER VII. The Navy -- Part ΙII. The Years if Crisis, 1930-33 -- CHAPTER VIII. Policy in the Foreign Office -- CHAPTER IX. The Military and Joint Planning -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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In the historiographic debate over Germany's responsibility for the outbreak of the two world wars, little attention has been paid to German politico- military activity in the Weimar Republic. Although Weimar diplomats and military leaders emphasized the interconnection and developed ideas and procedures for joint planning, historians have usually treated the foreign and military affairs of the republic separately. Gaines Post, Jr., however, examines the relationship between foreign policy and military planning, and charts its directions and changes to develop a model of German civil-military relations which sheds light on the general problem of modern civil-military relations.He shows that diplomats and military leaders shared assumptions about the role of force in foreign policy and the subordination of the military arm to the political leadership, and that they collaborated in assessing Germany's strategic situation, in rearmament, and in operational exercises. In the 1920's, interdepartmental cooperation between the foreign office and the Defense Ministry became the foundation of a stable system of civil-military relations. The system broke down during the crisis period of 1930-1933 because of mounting institutional pressures.The author demonstrates how, in both periods, civilian and military leaders viewed military force not simply as an instrument of national self-defense, but as an acceptable means of attaining national goals, above all the revision of the German-Polish borders.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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