What Germany required was self-sufficiency in food. Those victories on the Eastern front were "cool", but they didn't help very much with that little detail.
What Germany required was self-sufficiency in food. Those victories on the Eastern front were "cool", but they didn't help very much with that little detail.
That's from Wiki. Here,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusilov_Offensive
Russian casualties were considerable, numbering up to 1.5 million. The Brusilov Offensive is listed among the most lethal battles in world history.
The early part of the offensive was generally successful, but Brusilov pressed on far beyond the point where he should have stopped, and his casualties mounted heavily, and the Russian army simply was too brittle by that point for such rough handling. The Russians should have reverted to the defensive by mid or late July.
Norman Stone, The Eastern Front, mentions this as happening late in the Brusilov Offensive.
Any sane Russian policy in 1914 would not have gone to war over Serbian terrorists in the first place. Of all Russia's decisions in the last 500 years, the one for war in 1914 had to be the most incompetent one.
The Germans think they are winning and their demands for peace seem worse to the Allies than fighting on.
Well, Wikipedia is a source of often dubious. I've also read the article from the Russian wiki about 1 million of losses at Verdun, and it turned out it together with the wounded, while the number of dead on both sides - 480000.
Is there any chance of that happening? I mean Russia was the reason France joined in the first place and this is before the US joined the war and the casualties are horrific why doesn't everyone just agree to end the war are they just that stubborn?