"With them the Tsar's warning that "the accelerated arms race"-----to produce ever larger armies, heavier artillery and bigger warships----was  "transforming the armed peace into a crushing burden that weighs on all nations and, if prolonged, will lead to the very cataclysm it seeks to avert..." Selection from John Keegan's The First World War (Page 17).
 
History Seminar The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (c) May 8th 2008