HTST 489 Lecture Notes - Political Warfare, Ethnocentrism
11 Feb 2014
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Both brits and russia find it difficult to communicate with forces in turkey. Takes a week for british to send message, local commander begins to refuse order, often 2 days out of communication with navy. English trying to make russia back down, but without realize it antagonize them. Russian tsarist commander knows that there"s no winning though, istanbul could be taken but wouldn"t be held. Russian"s have clear picture of english intentions that guide their actions. Lord salisbury learns a great deal about russia from lessons learned from intelligence. Because the english decisionmaking system is much more fractured on the issue of turkey, in the key dispute between russia and turkey, english intel is as good as the russian"s but doesn"t allow them to pursue any action. Serb government linked to the black hand group, knows in advance of the plan to assassinate franz. Still in an age when gentlemen and diplomats consider it unseemly to lie.
