The big picture then was that, with the transportation revolution and the deployment of mass armies, war could no longer be seen as the continuation of politics through other means. The industrialization of war had made it “obsolete” in rational terms.
当时的大背景是，随着交通运输的革命和大规模军队的部署，战争不再能被看作是政治以其他方式的延续。战争的工业化使得理性的思维变得“过时”了。第一次世界大战更多地意味着欧洲的自杀，而不是德国、奥地利和奥斯曼帝国的战败。