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“Bismarck created a new Germany with the policy of ‘blood and iron’.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2001
  • Nation-State System

The phrase names a real method, but its meaning is narrower and more calculated than the popular image of raw militarism suggests.

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  • The 1862 Speech and Its Real Meaning
  • Blood and Iron in Practice: Three Wars
  • The Danish War (1864)
  • The Austro-Prussian War (1866)
  • The Franco-Prussian War (1870–71)
  • Diplomacy Alongside Force — Blood and Iron Was Never Force Alone
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