The Society of American Military Engineers leads collaborative efforts to identify and resolve national security infrastructure-related challenges. The magazine remains a leading source for recounting the achievements of engineering in support of national security. TME has followed the trends of engineering from the development of our nation’s transportation infrastructure through Cold War-era construction and the birth of computer-aided design to the current era of sustainable development and infrastructure resilience. It has detailed the greatest feats of modern engineering, such as the Panama Canal and the Hoover Dam. TME has chronicled military engineers during the last 100 years of armed conflicts, including two World Wars, Korea, Vietnam and the War on Terror. The Military Engineer was launched under its current masthead in 1920 (after previously being published as Professional Memoirs, a Corps of Engineers publication) and immediately carried the message of the new “association of engineers” and was a vital tool in communicating with engineers across the country and helping establish the Post network, which became the bedrock of SAME. Hamden, CT: Archon.Central to the establishment of SAME was The Military Engineer magazine, which throughout its history has served as a professional journal dedicated to promoting and advancing engineering for national security. Leavenworth, KS: The Command and General Staff School Press. But while the losses in men and material were replaced, the blow Tannenberg inflicted on Russian national morale was never restored throughout the war. Their failure was primarily a consequence of attempting a campaign of maneuver arguably beyond the capacity of any army under the tactical conditions of 1914. The Russians came closer to victory in East Prussia than is generally realized. Samsonov committed suicide and the Germans turned on Rennenkampf, driving the First Army back over the frontier between September 7 and 14, in the Battle of the Masurian Lakes. That gave a new German command team of Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff time to develop plans already outlined by staff officers on the ground - to concentrate their entire force against the Second Army.Īfter five days of hard fighting, between August 26 and August 30, there were 50,000 Russian casualties, and 90,000 prisoners. Poor logistics and intelligence further slowed the advance, particularly in the Second Army's sector. The Russian commanders, however, failed to coordinate their movements and to press their advantage. Both initially achieved local successes against indecisive opposition. The First Army, under General Pavel Rennenkampf, advanced west across the Niemen River the Second Army, under General Alexander Samsonov, moved northwest from Russian Poland. Russia's war plan against Germany involved sending two armies against the exposed province of East Prussia, defended by what seemed little more than a token force. The principal question was whether the attack should concentrate on Germany or Austria, and the Russian army seemed to have ample strength to pursue both options. That in turn justified taking strategic risks. On the grand strategic level, the tsarist empire's major problem involved making sure its major continental ally, France, was not forced out of the war before Russia could bring its full strength to bear. The Battle of Tannenberg, in August 1914, was the consequence of Russia's commitment to an immediate offensive during World War I.
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