schlieffen

Nous détachons un aspect de l’important article du lieutenant-colonel Yingling, dont nous proposons une rapide analyse par ailleurs. Il s’agit des deux paragraphes qui terminent l’article, qui pourraient effectivement être intitulés : De Valmy à Iéna. «This article began with Frederick the Great’s admonition to his officers to focus their energies on the larger aspects of war. The Prussian monarch’s innovations had made his army the terror of Europe, but he knew that his adversaries were learning and adapting. Frederick feared that his generals would master his system of war without thinking deeply about the ever-changing nature of war, and in doing so would place… Un saisissant parallèle : de Valmy à Iéna