Download or read book The Ideology of the Offensive written by Jack Snyder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1989-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Snyder's analysis of the attitudes of military planners in the years prior to the Great War demonstrates that it is not only rational analysis that determines strategic doctrine, but also the attitudes of military planners.