The Fall of the Habsburg Armies - Graydon Tunstall

Over one million Habsburg troops were mobilized in WWI, creating a logistical challenge of integrating diverse cultures and languages, educational backgrounds and provisioning of supplies needed for modern warfare. In this Empires at War exhibition program, Dr. Graydon Tunstall will chart the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army’s ultimate collapse in 1918, showing how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. Dr. Tunstall will speak on how the army suffered from poor training, strategic direction and outdated tactics while facing a two-front offensive against both Russia and Serbia, following the army's performance on the battlefields of Galicia, Serbia, Romania, the Middle East and Italy through to its ultimate collapse in 1918.

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