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...during 1942 and 1943 are textbook examples of doctrinal flexibility and extraordinary innovation. The unprecedented success of both the Battle of the Bismarck Sea and the Wewak Raid illustrate how airpower became the dominant force in the Southwest Pacific....

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...rovide objective analysis of a halt-phase strategy. This study identifies the key criteria by examining air combat in three operations: the Battle of Bismarck Sea, the 1973 Golan Heights battles of the Yom Kippur War, and the Iraqi Republican Guard escape from Basra. This examination focuses on air operations looking for tactics, tactical innovations, and operational circu...

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...ON OF THE HALT–PHASE STRATEGY . . 5 Notes . . . . . . 13 3 CRITIQUES OF THE HALT–PHASE STRATEGY . . 15 Notes . . . . . . 22 4 THE BATTLE OF THE BISMARCK SEA . . 25 Notes . . . . . . 34 5 1973 YOM KIPPUR WAR, GOLAN HEIGHTS ACTION . . 37 Notes . . . . . . 47 6 THE IRAQI REPUBLICAN GUARD BASRA ESCAPE . . . 49 Notes . . . . . . 63 7 CONCLUSIONS . . . . . 65 No...

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...re west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------------... ...have the stone tablets of Moses, evidence of Egyptian chariots in the Red Sea, or the remains of Noah‘s ark. We can be quite certain that Muhammad a... ...ng thing, as many primitives believed, or the powerful gods living in the sea or in the sky occasionally casting lightening bolts, or the more benefi... ...sends fire on Sodom, orders the killing of whole nations, or lets the Red Sea engulf the pursing Egyptians after Moses had crossed. Can he tell lies... ...m and the events that preceded him and followed him are found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were written sometime after 250 BCE. They were not a co... ...pproaches to handling the welfare needs of their citizens. Germany, under Bismarck, was the first country to bring in public health insurance. That ...

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... to happen: every snowflake that was once a water molecule that came from the sea flows back down to the ocean and falls back onto the ground and ba... ...t you didn't notice that the Santa Ana winds were pushing all the smog out to sea. If you come back with some sort of infectious disease, this merel... ...lly balancing itself dynamically while it runs down the river, and out to the sea. But…. If you build a Dam across that river… Then you can use ... ...ing of knowledge in certain fields. But even that is badly flawed. The Dead Sea Scrolls were left to molder for decades in the hands of a single, j... ...ground stores of ionized magma, which this crust of Earth, stone, continents, sea beds, floats on. Some parts of this crust has more ironized minera... ...ead of spying on them he joined them and betrayed the government. He betrayed Bismarck. He betrayed the new German Republic, he betrayed his own Na... ...approval by his elders. His mother disowning him and disliking him. Ousting Bismarck from office as soon as he could so he could exercise his newl... ...loving world. His idiocy ruined all the carefully laid policies and plans of Bismarck. Hitler, Bismarck and Wilhelm all had the exact same ambiti... ...r nation: crushing other nations under its booted foot as conquering heroes. Bismarck was realistic enough to understand that this could never be d...

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...ow swampy coast had retained its appearance of a mere smudge of darkness beyond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea--seemed to shatter themselves upon an adamantine surface into sparkling dust, into a dazzling vapor of light that blinded the eye and wearied the brain with its unsteady brightness....

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...yond a belt of glitter. The sunrays seemed to fall violently upon the calm sea—seemed to shatter themselves upon an adaman- tine surface into sparklin... ...ween his feet. He could not hope to see anything new upon this lane of the sea. He had been on these coasts for the last three years. From Low Cape to... ...South Seas, and had seen the sun rise on uncharted islands. Fifty years at sea, and forty out in the East (“a pretty thorough apprenticeship,” he used... ...Corporation. Men whose judgment in matters of finance was as expert as his sea-manship had commended the prudence of his investments, and had themselv... ... as he expressed it himself. He had formally declared himself tired of the sea the year preceding his daughter’s marriage. But af- ter the young coupl... ...on without a cover, the numbers of a Ger- man magazine with covers of the “Bismarck malade” color. There were also parcels of new music—though the pia...

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...enry James The Point of View by Henry James I. FROM MISS AURORA CHURCH, AT SEA, TO MISS WHITESIDE, IN PARIS. …My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if... ...o see her at all taken down. She says, however, that it isn’t the being at sea; it’s, on the contrary, approaching the land. She is not in a hurry to ... ...me silence; her eye dilates, and then she slowly closes it. It’s as if the sea were affecting her a little, though it’s so beautifully calm. I ask her... ...boot-soles, by the way, is not prompted by vanity; but it’s a fact that at sea one’s feet and one’s shoes assume the most extraordinary importance, so... ...ven our choice of coming safely to land or going down to the bottom of the sea, I should doubtless have chosen the former course; for I hold, with you... ... for there being no cathedrals and no Titians. I hear nothing about Prince Bismarck and Gambetta, about the Emperor Will- iam and the Czar of Russia, ... ...and the Prince of Wales. I used to get so tired of their Mumbo- Jumbo of a Bismarck, of his secrets and surprises, his mysterious intentions and oracu... ...ve to come to. The questions of the future are social questions, which the Bismarcks and Beaconsfields are very much afraid to see settled; and the si...

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...bour; he will then have seen all manner of ships, from men-of-war and deep-sea packets to the labour vessels of the German firm and the cockboat islan... ...nd Westphalian iron, his most considerable asset was found to be the South Sea business. This passed (I understand) through the hands of Baring Brothe... ...op- ics, the appearance is of fairyland. The managers, many of them German sea-captains, are enthusiastic in their new em- ployment. Experiment is con... ...p. Death, deporta- tion by the primitive method of setting the criminal to sea in a canoe, fines, and in Samoa itself the penalty of publicly biting a... ...of August 1887 there were five sail of Ger- man war-ships in Apia bay: the Bismarck, of 3000 tons dis- placement; the Carola, the Sophie, and the Olga... ... “leave it to me, and I will try.” From Mulinuu, Mataafa went on board the Bismarck, and was graciously received. “Prob- ably,” said the commodore, “w... ...wept and clung to their departing monarch. A boat carried him on board the Bismarck, and he vanished from his countrymen. Yet it was long rumoured tha... ... thought of him as of some King Arthur snatched into Avilion. On board the Bismarck, the commodore shook hands with him, told him he was to be “taken ... ...affronts and tiffs; and I find this weakness indicated by the big thumb of Bismarck, when he places “sensitiveness to small disre- spects – empfindlic...

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... and villas, and then the gas-works and the water-works, and a great, ugly sea of workmen’s houses, and then drainage, and the water van- ished out of... ...pshots still survive to record that incident. His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and we... ... dis- carded when that gentleman had thought he must needs plunge into the sea. Bert bawled out half angry, half rueful, “Y ou might have said you wer... ...n the white wrapper of a Desert Dervish, was running along the edge of the sea. Mr. Butteridge was knee-deep in the water, bawling im- mensely. The la... ...p- pearance of the Hermann to the east, and immediately after of the Furst Bismarck in the west, forced the Americans to leave her, but in that time t... ...ding them in succession, steaming in between them and the big modern Furst Bismarck, which was coming up from the west. T o Bert, however, the names o... ...f the Americans’ battery, and smash came an answering shell from the Furst Bismarck. Then a second and third flying-machine passed between Bert and th... ...ting part was passing be- tween her and the still fresh and vigorous Furst Bismarck to 109 H G Wells intercept and meet the latter’s fire. Away to th... ...-greased, ill- hung door that falls ajar—the sound of the men in the Furst Bismarck cheering. And in that pause in the uproar too, the sun rose, the d...

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...things that make and pass, striving upon a hidden mission, out to the open sea. To Frederick Soddy’s INTERPRETATION OF RADIUM This story, which owes l... ...and carved wood, made pottery, paddled down his river until he came to the sea, discovered the wheel and made the first roads. But his chief activity ... ...tine and the field,’ thought Holsten, ‘there have also been wonder and the sea.’ He turned his head and looked up over the back of the seat at the gre... ...and the gradual cleansing of the Lon- don atmosphere as the smoke-creating sea-coal fires gave place to electric heating. The building of laboratories... ...collapse. These crowning buds upon the tradition that Napoleon planted and Bismarck watered, opened and flared ‘like waterlilies of flame’ over nation... ...opposite to being fresh and young. ‘I was reading only the other day about Bismarck, that hero of nineteenth-century politics, that sequel to Napoleon... ...aydon. ‘He is so far off—and there are men alive still who were alive when Bismarck died!’ … said the young man…. S S S S Section 5 ection 5 ection 5 ... ...on 5 ection 5 ection 5 ection 5 ection 5 ‘AND YET it may be I am unjust to Bismarck,’ said Karenin, following his own thoughts. ‘You see, men belong t... ... a gracious one. The world also has its moods. Think of the mental food of Bismarck’s childhood; the hu- miliations of Napoleon’s victories, the crowd...

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...ognised Hooven, one of Derrick’s tenants, a German, whom every one called “Bismarck,” an excitable little man with a per- petual grievance and an endl... ...l grievance and an endless flow of broken English. 5 Frank Norris “Hello, Bismarck,” said Presley, as Hooven brought his team to a standstill by the ... ...tonous round of their sordid existence. “Well, you must be quick about it, Bismarck,” he an- swered sharply. “I’m late for dinner, as it is.” “Soh, no... ...hr. Do I alzoh—” “You’ll have to see Derrick himself or Harran about that, Bismarck,” interrupted Presley, trying to draw away. “That’s something outs... ... should be ge-sacked. Who, den, will der ditch ge- tend? Say, you tell ‘um Bismarck hef gotta sure stay bei 6 The Octopus der place. Say, you hef der... ...the air. It was one of the few spots thereabouts that had survived the dry sea- son of the last year. Nearly all the other springs had dried completel... ...t nothing else but ruin. But here he checked himself. T wo consecutive dry sea- sons in California were almost unprecedented; a third would be beyond ... ...in, mystic that he was, he sent his mind out from him across the enchanted sea of the Supernatu- ral. Hope, of what he did not know, roused up within ... ...n Angele to come to him, his voiceless cry pen- etrating far out into that sea of faint, ephemeral light that floated tideless over the little valley ...

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...ht come to our aid to judge us by what they saw if Germany held our Atlantic sea board, with all its great cities, together with, say, Pittsburg and B... ...ND THEIR MEANING 7 used to be very clever about dressing up their statues of Bismarck as “Liberty Enlightening the World” when democratic visitors wer...

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...s no part of his mission. On the other hand the day was charming; the blue sea, in Southampton Water, pricked all over with light, had no movement but... ...low Germans and some were black, and all looked greasy and matted with the sea-damp. They were destined to swell still further the huge current of the... ...hey had a great deal of luggage, innumerable bags and rugs and hampers and sea-chairs, and were composed largely of ladies of vari- ous ages, a little... ...ured three or four miles on the deck he was ready to settle himself in his sea- chair and draw from his pocket a Tauchnitz novel by an American author... ...the Isle of Wight. Certain tall white cones of rock rose out of the purple sea; they flushed in the afternoon light and their vague rosiness gave them... ... solid- ity which should characterise the motives of an emissary of Prince Bismarck. The superficial reason was a belief that Mrs. Steuben would pay h...

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...twenty two George, through fighting habits and drinking habits acquired at sea and in the sailor boarding houses of the European and Oriental ports, w... ...and Edison’s; like the African pygmy’s and Homer’s; like the Bushman’s and Bismarck’s. Y.M. How are you going to make that out, when the lower animals... ...of splendor emphatic and conspicuous in its glowing surroundings. It was a sea of flashing color all What Is Man and Other Essays 116 about, but thes... ...ive about a week before the first opera, and engage all the tables for the sea son. My tribe had tried all kinds of places—some outside of the town, ... .... Hindoostan flows through the Ganges and empties into the Mediter ranean Sea. Ireland is called the Emigrant Isle because it is so beautiful and gre... ..., ter rible signs in the heavens, tempests out of the common order of the sea sons, wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes in various places; all w...

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...ung men and women. But they are apples of Sodom, as a matter of fact, Dead Sea Fruit, gall-apples. It isn’t true that they have any significance—their... ...eal tree of life would then be rid of the most ghastly, heavy crop of Dead Sea Fruit, the intoler- able burden of myriad simulacra of people, an infin... ...orld to a brightness, on and on to heaven, flowing into a bright eter- nal sea, a heaven of angels thronging. But the other is our real reality—’ ‘But... ...other rolls—the black river of corruption. And our flowers are of this—our sea-born Aphrodite, all our white phosphorescent flowers of sensuous perfec... ... rather short, cut round and hanging level in her neck. ‘We’re going to do Bismarck, aren’t we?’ she said, linking her hand through Gudrun’s arm. ‘Yes... ...’ she said, linking her hand through Gudrun’s arm. ‘Yes, we’re going to do Bismarck. Do you want to?’ ‘Oh yes-oh I do! I want most awfully to do Bisma... ...rt that Gudrun loathed, insolent. ‘Winifred veut tant faire le portrait de Bismarck-! Oh, mais toute la matinee-”We will do Bismarck this morning!”-Bi... ... Oh, mais toute la matinee-”We will do Bismarck this morning!”-Bis- marck, Bismarck, toujours Bismarck! C’est un lapin, n’est-ce pas, mademoiselle?’ ‘... ... le faire voir. T ant de fois je le lui ai demande, “Qu’est ce donc que ce Bismarck, Winifred?” Mais elle n’a pas voulu me le dire. Son Bismarck, c’et...

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... times. No stomach could hold all that quantity at one time, of course—but there are ways of frequently creating a vacuum, which those who have been m... ...re, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are al- ways volunteering. A corps student told me it was of record that ... ...ge not available—ed.] At noon we stepped ashore and bought some bottled beer and got some chickens cooked, while the raft waited; then we immediately ... ...rms of the men were lost in the darkness and the sounds were distorted and confused by the roaring of the wind through the shingle-bundles. By this ti... ...blast of wind, clothed in spray and thick darkness. At such a moment as this, came from away forward that most appalling of all cries that are ever he... ... a man’s cheek blanch and his pulses stop, but he had never, never seen a storm that even approached this one. How familiar that sounded! For I have b... ...t is more than likely that he never had the same curiosity again. (TRANSLATION.) “E. Glinicke, four days for being too eager a spectator of a row.” “F...

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...that there can’t be Mr Mildmay. Why shouldn’t there be as good fish in the sea as ever were caught out of it?’ ‘When you’ve got a good fish you like t... ...he Prime Minister night.’ The words contained a general invitation for the sea- son, and were esteemed by Lopez as an indication of great favour. It m... ... easy air and pleasant smile. His smile was as bright as the ripple of the sea, and his eye would then gleam, and the slightest sparkle of white teeth... ...sion of State matters. Does not all the world know that when in autumn the Bismarcks of the world, or they who are bigger than Bismarcks, meet at this... ...ad gone to the Admi- ralty, and had already made arrangements for going to sea, as a gallant sailor should. ‘We are going away in the “Black Watch” fo... ...s done. The First Lord would have his epaulets stripped if he didn’t go to sea in August.’ ‘And must you go with him?’ 351 Anthony Trollope ‘I have p...

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...ut he revenged himself 23 W. Somerset Maugham by calling the churchwarden Bismarck behind his back. Once there had been a serious quarrel between the... ... a small beach, shut in on each side by warehouses, but with a view of the sea. Mrs. Carey stood for a few minutes and looked 25 W. Somerset Maugham ... ...r Street, and she went to see them on her evenings out. Her stories of the sea touched Philip’s imagination, and the narrow alleys round the harbour g... ... knew not why, and afterwards when he thought of them found himself all at sea. There was a boy called Luard between whom and Philip a friendship had ... ...e shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done. And all this, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer , be... ... with stories of his immorality . The Vicar of Surle, a tiny hamlet by the sea, was to be seen every evening in the public house a stone’s throw from ...

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...r mind me. Go, be happy. I forgive you.” Forgive what? McTeague was all at sea, was harassed with the thought of some shadowy, irreparable injury he h... ...nk left bare by the tide, which was far out, nearly half a mile. Clouds of sea-gulls were for- ever rising and settling upon this mud bank; a wrecked ... ...raits of the President, of Grant, of Washington, of Napoleon Bonaparte, of Bismarck, of Garibaldi, of P. T. Barnum. And so the evening passed. The hal... ...reak!” What a wonderful supper that was! There was oyster soup; there were sea bass and barracuda; there was a gigantic roast goose stuffed with chest... ... wrestling ring the sleeve of Marcus’s shirt fluttered occasionally in the sea breeze. Nobody was paying any attention to Selina. All at once she bega... ...r all that she had a clear- cut vision of her husband’s body, bloated with sea-water, his blond hair streaming like kelp, rolling inertly in shift- in...

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... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898......................................................

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..............................................................46 TALES OF THE SEA—1898 ..................................................................... ...over, in a big hotel, in a bed- room with a large window looking on to the sea. He had been very ill and Mrs. Crane was taking him to some place in Ge... ...me of that name, know with what fine understanding he loved horses and the sea. And his passage on this earth was like that of a horseman riding swift... ... in the dawn of a day fated to be short and without sunshine. TALES OF THE SEA—1898 IT IS BY HIS IRRESISTIBLE POWER to reach the adventurous side in t... ...nt to be heard or believed. Yet not all. In the very early sixties, Prince Bismarck, then about to leave his post of Prussian Minister in St. Petersbu... ... his colleague the inscription inside: “La Russie, c’est le neant.” Prince Bismarck had the truth of the matter and was neither too modest nor too dis... ...lief in its existence will no longer answer anybody’s purposes (now Prince Bismarck is dead) unless the purposes of the writers of sensational paragra... ...ssia is bound to remain a neant for many long years, in a more even than a Bismarckian sense. The very fear of this spectre being gone, it behoves us ... ...es on Life and Letters measures with a perfectly logical duplicity, Prince Bismarck’s Empire has taken care to couple the neighbourly offers of milita...

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...is the power of the Sphinx that sits in the desert watching the way to the sea. What she would have it know, she tells into the ears of the sacred cat... ... PERSIAN. Which way come the Romans? BEL AFFRIS. Over the desert, from the sea, by this very Sphinx. PERSIAN (to Ftatateeta). O mother of guile! O asp... ...yes, yes: I forgot. Go quickly and work, Caesar; and keep the way over the sea open for my Mark Antony. (She runs out through the log- gia, kissing he... ... runs out through the log- gia, kissing her hand to Mark Antony across the sea.) CAESAR (going briskly up the middle of the hall to the loggia steps).... ...with buck- ets—a multitude of soldiers—over there (pointing out across the sea to her left)—they are dipping up the water. RUFIO (hastening to look). ... ...says things that other people are afraid to say need be no more frank than Bismarck was; and there is no generosity in giv- ing things you do not want...

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...itself possesses no beauty: bare, grey shores, grim grey houses, grim grey sea; not even the gleam of red tiles; not even the greenness of a tree. The... ...higher, rain thicker: the wind still rising as the night closes in and the sea slowly rising along with it; it looks like a three days’ gale. Last wee... ...s like a three days’ gale. Last week has been a blank one: always too much sea. I enjoyed myself very much last night at the R.’s. There was a little ... ...d rose again to-day; it is a dreadful evening; but the wind is keeping the sea down as yet. Of course, nothing more has been done to the poles; and I ... ...ipper thought it was a sunk smack, and dropped his anchor in full drift of sea: chain broke: schooner came ashore. Insured laden with wood: skipper ow... ...arable that Germany took England, and then there was an Indian Mutiny, and Bismarck said: ‘Quite right: let Delhi and Calcutta and Bombay fall; and le...

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...er deck. There was silence, for each was busy with his own thoughts. These sea sons of silence had insensibly been growing more and more frequent of ... ...ities, and one of the few that was allowed to retain its royal estate when Bismarck got done trimming them. I know that farm, I’ve been there. It’s go... ...nd Other Stories 40 with anything but game and delicacies that were out of sea son; and every day the friends and neighbors flocked in to hear about ... ... the judgment of the professional moralists agreed with his own or not. At sea, in his young days, he had used profanity freely, but as soon as he was... ...ccasions, and then only when duty commanded. He had been a hard drinker at sea, but after his conversion he became a firm and outspoken teetotaler, in... ...—let the night owl send forth its screams from the stubborn oak— let the sea sport upon the beach, and the stars sing together; but learn of these, ... ... November number, now could anything be sweeter than that? And there was Bismarck’s, in the October number; who can look at that without being purer... ... have seen for years. Rosa Bonheur. The smile may be almost called unique. Bismarck. I never saw such character portrayed in a picture face be fore. ...

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...lity and begun to be forgotten. He arrived in London at last, in the early sea- son, with as little observation as he could desire; and as he was an o... ... “He is at least suggestive; and as he is an author much studied by Prince Bismarck, you will, at the worst, lose your time in good society.” “Sir,” s... ...te robberies and the Rajah’s Diamond. “That diamond would be better in the sea,” observed Prince Florizel. “As a Vandeleur,” replied the Dictator, “yo... ...enson THE PA VILION ON THE LINKS CHAPTER I – TELLS HOW I CAMPED IN GRADEN SEA-WOOD, AND BEHELD A LIGHT IN THE PAVILION I WA S A GREAT SOLITARY when I... ...erness of links and blowing sand-hills, and be- tween a plantation and the sea, a small Pavilion or Belvidere, of modern design, which was exactly sui... ...from three miles to half a mile, this belt of barren country lay along the sea. The beach, which was the natural approach, was full of quicksands. Ind...

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...r- ests of the British Empire are paramount, and that the com- mand of the sea belongs by nature to England. BALSQUITH. But if they wont recognize it,... ...ilian, Balsquith. At least youll not deny that the absolute command of the sea is essential to our security. 15 Shaw BALSQUITH. The absolute command ... ...essential to our security. 15 Shaw BALSQUITH. The absolute command of the sea is essen- tial to the security of the principality of Monaco. But Mo- n... ...marck, whom I have reason to believe was a woman in dis- guise. MITCHENER. Bismarck a woman? MRS. BANGER. All the really strong men of history have be...

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...ode. Not long ago, when lunch ing with the Emperor, I sat next our little Bismarck, and in a spirit of mischief I began sounding him about you. But I... ... it held and holds true. The social condition of Russia is like a tideless sea, whose sullen quiescence is broken from time to time by terrific storms...

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...FIRST EPILOGUE: 1813-20 CHAPTER I SEVEN YEARS HAD PASSED. The storm-tossed sea of European history had subsided within its shores and seemed to have b... ... motion are unknown to us) continued to operate. Though the surface of the sea of history seemed motionless, the movement of humanity went on as uncea... ...f kingdoms and displace- ment of peoples was in course of preparation. The sea of history was not driven spasmodically from shore to shore as previous... ...sts, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate. But the smooth sea again suddenly becomes disturbed. The diplomatists think that their dis... ...n III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico. The King of Prussia and Bismarck issue decrees and an army enters Bohemia. Napoleon I issues a decr... ...ussian war appears to us undoubtedly the re- sult of the crafty conduct of Bismarck, and so on. The Napo- leonic wars still seem to us, though already...

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...orkings of political democracy has shown that in this respect Disraeli and Bismarck were shrewder judges of human nature than either Liberals or Socia... ...He hated the Germans with a bitter hatred, partly, no doubt, on account of Bismarck, but probably still more on account of Marx. T o this day, Anarchi... ...ndividual, tramways and railways which have already begun to introduce the sea- son ticket or the uniform tax, and will surely go much fur- ther on th...

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...r, as before, a dark, unseen river flow- ing through the gloom, but a dark sea swelling and gradu- ally subsiding after a storm. Rostov looked at and ... ...hered up the reins, and he moved off accompanied by an irregularly swaying sea of aides-de- camp. Farther and farther he rode away, stopping at other ... ...were, as we supposed, six miles away, or whether they were near by in that sea of mist, no one knew till after eight o’clock. It was nine o’clock in t... ...o’clock. It was nine o’clock in the morning. The fog lay unbro- ken like a sea down below, but higher up at the village of Schlappanitz where Napoleon... ...rb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist. The whole French army, and even Napoleon him- self with his st... ...n III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico. The King of Prussia and Bismarck issue de- crees and an army enters Bohemia. Napoleon I issues a de... ...Prussian war appears to us undoubtedly the result of the crafty conduct of Bismarck, and so on. The Napoleonic wars still seem to us, though already q...