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October 19, 2015
The big story of 1915 is that it has been a disaster for the Russians.
The Tsar has made the fateful decision to assume direct command of the Russian Army. It is a fateful decision – at least, people say it’s fateful – for two reasons. Firstly it means that any Russian military failures are his personal failures. Secondly, it means he is not in Petrograd to keep an eye on the domestic situation. At least, that’s the theory. There’s every chance he would have been every bit as useless in Petrograd as at the front. 1915: the story so far « Samizdata
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 19, 2015 11:17 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.