c. 1850 CE–c. 1871 CE
Railways, telegraphy, and mass-mobilization planning
War & military technology · Movilización · Logística · Ferrocarriles · Comunicaciones militares
By the mid-nineteenth century, general staffs and civil administrations increasingly coordinated reserves, trains, maps, supplies, and telegraphic communications to concentrate forces. The Prussian case shows both the possibilities of railway plans and their limits: rapid transport alone did not solve loading, storage, supply, political decisions, or an opponent’s response.
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