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In this Program from the Combat Studies Institute, panelists discuss the ways various military theorists and the nations of France, Britain, America and Germany applied the lessons of World War I, driven by the desire to avoid trench warfare and huge casualty totals. It looks theories of air power and the reasons the U.S. and Britain looked to strategic bombing as crucial. It examines debates over naval doctrine in light of the development of the...
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This program from the Combat Studies Institute provides an overview World War I, focusing on the way warfare changed drastically during and as a result and through the course of the war. It looks at what happened when war plans such as the Schlieffen Plan and the British naval strategy clashed with reality, and the strategies that developed to try to break the stalemate. It looks at the consequences of unprecedented level of mobilization of society...
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After a haunting overview of the Second World War in episode 1, A Necessary War, Ken Burns takes us to back to the moment it all began. The inhabitants of four American towns recall life in their communities on the eve of the conflict. For them others finally beginning to recover from the Great Depression, the events overseas seem impossibly far away. But suddenly, their tranquil lives are shattered by the shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,...