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The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized.

Friedrich von Bernhardi

War is a biological necessity of the first importance, a regulative element in the life of mankind which cannot be dispensed with.... But it is not only a biological law but a moral obligation, and, as such, an dispensable factor in civilization.

Friedrich von Bernhardi

We must rouse in our people the unanimous wish for power in this sense, together with the determination to sacrifice on the altar of patriotism, not only life and property, but also private views and preferences in the interests of the common welfare.

Friedrich von Bernhardi

Friedrich von Bernhardi

Friedrich von Bernhardi

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Born: November 22, 1849

Died: November 12, 1930 (aged 80)

Bio: Friedrich Adolf Julius von Bernhardi was a Prussian general and military historian. He was a best-selling author prior to World War I. A militarist, he is perhaps best known for his bellicose book Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg, printed in 1911.

Known for:

Germany and the Next War (1912)
On war of today
How Germany makes war (1914)
Cavalry in Future Wars
Cavalry in war and peace

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