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The Libyan war has rarely been seen as such, but as, arguably, the only war of aggression waged by a recognised Great Power against another traditional member of the Concert since 1870, it was in many aspects a microcosm of the greater war to come. The Italian government had entered the conflict with a complete ‘short-war illusion’, with the most rudimentary war aims and without any definition of civil-military relations. On the afternoon of 29 September 1911, Italy was at war with Turkey. What that meant was still to be worked out.
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Bosworth, R. (1983). Italy and the Last Years of Peace, 1911–14. In: Italy and the Approach of the First World War. The Making of the 20th Century. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17022-7_5
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