Originally posted by silent_kisses
thank you yerss 馃檪
Careful though, the tone and conclusion of the third site is all wrong. No-one (of importance) ever thought that the accumulation of power was going to prevent wars- on the contrary, countries like Germany were preparing for a war they saw as unavoidable. People WANTED that fight.
It is a very common error for peope to say the build up for WWI was comparable to the Cold War arms race. This is a gross distortion of attitudes at the time.
The second link is much better- making no mention of such a myth but highlighting the naval build up of Germany specifically as the only place where the building of arms was a serious issue (and that was most certainly not done as deterrent- it was deliberately aggressive!)
Meanwhile again... there was no such thing as attacking with infantry alone, even in Napoleonic times. WWI was more complex than a set situation like that.