The War Book of the German General Staff Being "The Usages of War on Land" Issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army

By the neutrality of a State is to be understood non-participation in the war by third parties; the duly attested intention not to participate in the conduct of the war either i...

By the means of conducting war is to be understood all those measures which can be taken by one State against the other in order to attain the object of the war, to compel one’s...

Bismarck, wrote Hohenlohe, who ultimately succeeded him as Imperial Chancellor, “handles everything with a certain arrogance (_Uebermut_), and this gives him a considerable adva...

In a pamphlet of mordant irony addressed to “Messieurs les Ministres du culte évangélique de l’armée du roi de Prusse” in the dark days of 1870, Fustel de Coulanges warned these...

It has already been shown in the introduction that war concerns not merely the active elements, but that also the passive elements are involved in the common suffering, _i.e._,...

The ideal Prince, so Machiavelli has told us, need not, and indeed should not, possess virtuous qualities, but he should always contrive to appear to possess them.[1] The somber...

In the following pages we have only to do with war treaties in the narrower sense, that is such as are concluded during the war itself and have as their object either the regula...

Nothing is so characteristic of the German nation as its astonishing single-mindedness--using that term in a mental and not a moral sense. Since Prussia established her ascenden...

Since the subjects of enemy States have quite different rights and duties according as they occupy an active or a passive position, the question arises: Who is to be recognized...

Hostile armies are in frequent intercourse with one another. This takes place so long as it is practised openly, that is to say, with the permission of the commanders on both si...

According to earlier views right up to the last century, a Government whose army had victoriously forced itself into the territory of a foreign State could do exactly as it plea...

By requisitions is to be understood the compulsory appropriation of certain objects necessary for the army which is waging war. What things belong to this category is quite unde...

In section 1, the inhabitant of the enemy’s territory was described as a subject of legal rights and duties, who, so far as the nature of war allows, may continue to live protec...

In the train of an army it is usual to find, temporarily or permanently, a mass of civilians who are indispensable to the satisfaction of the wants of officers and soldiers or t...

Since, according to the law of nations and the law of war to-day, war makes enemies of States and not of private persons, it follows that every arbitrary devastation of the coun...

Scouting resolves itself into a question of getting possession of important information about the position, strength, plans, etc., of the enemy, and thereby promoting the succes...

The generally accepted principle that in war one should do no more harm to one’s enemy than the object of the war unconditionally requires, has led to treating the wounded and s...

Those persons and objects who in war are to be treated as inviolable must be recognizable by some external mark. Such is the so-called Geneva Cross (a red cross on a white groun...

2. Capture of Enemy combatants: Modern conception of war captivity--Who is subject to it?--Point of view for treatment of prisoners of war--Right to put prisoners to death--Term...

The difference between these two is this--the first class are untrue to the colors, their intention being to withdraw altogether from the conflict, to leave the seat of war, and...