ABSTRACT
War is fought for victory, but victory means different things to different participants. It can reasonably be said that few of the warring nations in 1914 had very clear-cut goals other than the formless desire to maintain honor and find glory. Since the 1940s as World War I, which was roundly known at the time as the Great War, made the days of the early 1900s seem like a drowned dream peopled with fairy children waving from an innocent place lost in time. Theodore Roosevelt's own children, giddily known as the White House Gang, once planned an attack on the White House. Back in January 1917, before the United States entered the war, President Woodrow Wilson made a surprise visit to the Senate to deliver a speech calling on America to help bring a brokered end to hostilities. He said the nations of Europe must agree to a peace without victory.
