Civilian_and_Military_Power_(Ge ^o^o BOOKMOBI % ' . 7 @ H^ Q Y bs j s( | " 8 $ N MOBI #]# % P EXTH e International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin m pThis text is licensed under: CC by-NC-ND 3.0 Germany - Attribution, Non-commercial, No Derivative Works. g Armed conflicts provide fertile ground for the military’s ambitions to gain authority over civilian institutions and actors, a process that played out in the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. While military authorities and politics were almost on an equal footing when the First World War broke out, with the emperor as the constitutionally designated linchpin between the two spheres, Germany’s military leadership gained more and more influence and power as the years passed, exploiting the growing power vacuum caused by the inactivity of Emperor Wilhelm II and thereby severely weakening the primacy of politics in both domestic and foreign policy. en en d Lukas Grawe -Civilian and Military Power (Germany) l 2calibre (2.5.0) [http://calibre-ebook.com] i 9International Encyclopedia of the First World War i 1914-1918-Online i First World War i WW1 i -Civilian and Military Power (Germany) q ,3b27cb58-3baa-41f0-977b-e6366c6b4e3b p 4calibre:3b27cb58-3baa-41f0-977b-e6366c6b4e3b EBOK j !2020-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 t Civilian and Military Power (Germany)