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I just saw Henry Kissinger give a lecture, in which he invoked the idea that the governments of Europe were unprepared and unwilling to start WWI. Massie (Dreadnought) drew a much different conclusion. What's the state of scholarship here?

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I just saw Henry Kissinger give a lecture, in which he invoked the idea that the governments of Europe were unprepared and unwilling to start WWI. Massie (Dreadnought) drew a much different conclusion. What's the state of scholarship here?	870