POSLEDICE PRVE SVETOVNE VOJNE NA VOJAŠKO ORGANIZIRANOST NA SLOVENSKEM IN SPREMEMBE, KI SO JIH NOVE RAZMERE PRINESLE V VSAKODNEVNO ŽIVLJENJE LJUDI.

This war was different from any other before. Twenty-eight countries or three-quarters of mankind participated in it. Battles were fought at sea, on land, and towards the end in the air too, while casualties were more numerous than in any war so far - 20 million. It lasted four years, at the front and beyond, it destroyed the biggest of empires and influenced the successfully executed Bolshevik revolution in Russia. It also differed in military technique. New weapons: the airplane, tank, machine gun, gas changed the strategies and military unit tactics known until then. Together with its allies Germany and Italy, Austria-Hungary had been preparing for this war for twenty years, but it did not go according to their plans, not by a long shot. »Slovenian« regiments first bled on the fronts in Galicia. In 1915, a new front opened on Slovenian national territory, along the Soča River, which interfered with military as well as civilian life in this area. When WW1 ended, Slovenian territory, especially Maribor, witnessed the establishment of military units under the command of General Maister. These units were similar in form to those prior to the war but were completely different in national structure and chain of command. Thus the Slovenian army was established but it soon began, just like all other state institutions of the State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs, to get lost in the military and administration of the new state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ta vojna je bila drugačna od vseh doslej. V njej je sodelovalo 28 držav ali ¾ človeštva. Boji so potekali na morju, zemlji in ob koncu tudi v zraku, žrtev pa je bilo toliko kot v nobeni vojni doslej - 20 milijonov. Trajala je štiri leta, na fronti in v zaledju, ter uničila največje imperije in vplivala na uspešno izvedeno boljševistično revolucijo v Rusiji. Drugačna pa je bila tudi zaradi nove vojaške tehnike. Nova orožja: letalo, tank, strojnica, plin so spremenila do tedaj znano strategijo in taktiko delovanja vojaških enot. Avstro-Ogrska se je na vojno, skupaj s svojima zaveznicama Nemčijo in Italijo, pripravljala dvajset let, vendar vojna še zdaleč ni potekala po teh načrtih. »Slovenski« polki so sprva krvaveli na frontah v Galiciji. Leta 1915 pa se fronta odpre na slovenskem nacionalnem ozemlju, ob Soči, ter poseže tako v vojaško kot civilno življenje na Slovenskem. Ob koncu vojne so bile na slovenskem ozemlju, predvsem v Mariboru, pod poveljstvom generala Maistra vzpostavljene enote, ki so bile sicer formacijsko podobne tistim pred vojno, vendar popolnoma drugačne, predvsem nacionalne strukture in linije poveljevanja. Vzpostavljena je bila slovenska vojska, ki pa se je že takoj po tem začela, tako kot ostale državne institucije Države SHS, izgubljati v vojski in upravi nove države. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]