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- Title
Military Diplomacy in the Dual Alliance: German Military Attaché Reporting from Vienna, 1906-1914.
- Authors
Hadley, Tim
- Abstract
This article examines the reporting record of the German military attaché in Vienna from 1906 to the outbreak of the First World War. The reporting provided Berlin with a steady flow of information on the weaknesses of Austria-Hungary's armed forces. These weaknesses stemmed from the character and structure of the Dual Monarchy, and were responsible for its chronically debilitated combat-effectiveness. The reporting contradicts claims of contemporary German memoirists, and the belief of historians since the war, that neither Austria's military weaknesses nor their underlying causes were known at the highest levels of the German military prior to the war.
- Subjects
VIENNA (Austria); AUSTRIA; GERMANY; MILITARY attaches; MOLTKE, Helmuth James, Graf von, 1907-1945; DIPLOMATIC &; consular service; MILITARY journalism; MILITARY readiness; WORLD War I
- Publication
War in History, 2010, Vol 17, Issue 3, p294
- ISSN
0968-3445
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0968344510365421