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of 1866. Wawro gives no evidence for his thesis of Austrian aggression and then proceeds to lambaste the Austrians for not achieving "goals they never intended to pursue". Wawro also ignores Italy's "sweeping war aims"; her intentions of seizing
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Wawro won the Austrian Cultural Institute Prize and the Society for Military History Moncado Prize for Excellence in the Writing of Military History. From 1989 to 1991, he was
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s "special correspondent," a designation that took him to "places or events of strategic or technological interest," including Iran, Brazil and the
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Wawro, an expert on military innovation and international security in Europe, the U.S., and Canada, was also (before his move to
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Sondhaus, Lawrence (April 1998). "The Austro-Prussian War: Austria's War with Prussia and Italy in 1866 by Geoffrey Wawro".
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at University of Vienna, Austria, and from 1991 to 1992, an Andrew W. Mellon Doctoral Fellow at Yale University.
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A Mad Catastrophe: The Outbreak of World War I and the Collapse of the Habsburg Empire
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Sons of Freedom: The Forgotten American Soldiers Who Defeated Germany in World War I
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He has also served on the editorial teams for over twenty volumes, including
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as it was lost by the incompetence of the Austrian commander
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Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East
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