Here is the seventh and final posting of a series of papers or booklets written by Richard Koenigsberg during the period 1990-2008--in which he lays the foundation for his sacrificial theory of warfare. There is a link directly below. We hope you will click the link and study this classic paper.

Best regards, Mei Ha Chan, Executive Director 
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• FIRST WORLD WAR AS SACRIFICIAL RITUAL (Booklet)--click the preceding link to read.
   
• Contents 
• I. Introduction
• II. The First World War as Perpetual Slaughter
• III. Doctrine of the “Offensive at All Costs”
• IV. The Battle of the Somme
• V. Virility—The Battle of Verdun
• VI. The Sacred Ideal
• VII. Virility and Slaughter 
   
• Historians estimate that during the First World War (1914‐ 1918), 9 million soldiers were killed, 21 million wounded, and nearly 8 million taken prisoner or reported missing. Thus, of 65 million troops mobilized, nearly 38 million, or 58 percent were casualties. What was the purpose and meaning of this war? Why were millions of young men slaughtered?