http://airminded.org/2009/06/01/tuesday-1-june-1909/ Airpower and British society, 1908-1941 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://airminded.org/2009/06/01/tuesday-1-june-1909/comment-page-1/#comment-106318 Brett Holman Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:58:44 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=1899#comment-106318 I'd forgotten about that bit. At least they didn't assume that Germany needed more Cossacks ... I’d forgotten about that bit. At least they didn’t assume that Germany needed more Cossacks …

]]> http://airminded.org/2009/06/01/tuesday-1-june-1909/comment-page-1/#comment-106224 Erik Lund Sun, 31 May 2009 18:36:00 +0000 http://airminded.org/?p=1899#comment-106224 One of my favourite bits from Morris was his brief reference to German "Cossack scares." IIRC, at one point in 1911, the Kaiser abandoned a holidy at his East Prussian hunting estate when told that a Russian Cossack division was exercising just across the frontier. Flee the Mongol hordes, before it's too late! Which clearly proves that Schlieffen and Falkenhayn were right. Germany wasn't conscripting enough men. The problem was that their eyes were on France rather than the national morale. One of my favourite bits from Morris was his brief reference to German “Cossack scares.” IIRC, at one point in 1911, the Kaiser abandoned a holidy at his East Prussian hunting estate when told that a Russian Cossack division was exercising just across the frontier.
Flee the Mongol hordes, before it’s too late!
Which clearly proves that Schlieffen and Falkenhayn were right. Germany wasn’t conscripting enough men. The problem was that their eyes were on France rather than the national morale.

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