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Was the German campaign of 1916 in Romania a prelude to the German Blitzkrieg?
Historian Michael B. Barrett in his book “Prelude to Blitzkrieg: The 1916 Austro-German Campaign in Romania” argues that the campaign of 1916 in Romania can be considered the forerunner of what would become known in the Second World War as Blitzkrieg. In 1916, in...
Why did Romania refuse to participate in the negotiations of Brest Litovsk?
Immediately after gaining power in Petrograd, following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik government demanded the start of peace negotiations with the Central Powers. On December 15, 1917, the armistice was closed on the Eastern Front, and on December 22, 1917,...
The mechanism of a decision: Why did Romania enter the First World War in the summer of 1916?
The entry of Romania into the First World War was not a reaction to the military situation in the summer of 1916, not even to the offensive of the Tsarist troops led by General Brusilov. It was the result of a political decision calculated to take a decisive step in...
The budget of the Romanian Ministry of War during the First World War
The endowment of the Romanian army at the beginning of the 20th century was quite precarious, with numerous deficiencies in infantry weapons, heavy artillery, machine guns, grenades, equipment, ambulances, and so on. During the Second Balkan War (1913), shortages...