Principles, Pedagogy and The Great War

January 23, 2008 in Lesson Plans
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My students didn’t understand The Great War. Thank Heaven above that they had seen 300, or I would have had no chance to explain to them the importance of tactics in the early part of World War I.
I boiled down military thinking to three, easy-to-remember principles that guide a war against a roughly equal military [...]