Câteva Aspecte Privind Problematica Reformelor Militare Austro-Ungare în Preajma Primului Război Mondial
Few Aspects Regarding the Issue of Austrian-Hungarian Military Reforms Around the First World War

Summary/Abstract: In the entire modern era, the Austrian monarchy followed by the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy frequently initiated projects for the reform and modernization of the army, in order not only to not be left behind the other European military forces but also to keep close the soldiers of all the nationalities in the Empire, to the dynasty and its values, to eliminate possible centrifugal tendencies.After the closing of the dualist Austrian-Hungarian compromise in 1867, by the army law voted in the following year the mandatory military service was introduced, with the necessary exceptions. Other special laws fixed the number of recruits, the three-year duration of the military service, the types of uniforms of different weapons, etc. Likewise were introduced major changes for the structure of the officer corps in an attempt to diminish the conservative aristocratic element. During the first part of the second decade of the 20th century, especially when South-Eastern Europe was sitting on a powder keg, a situation due to the major involvement of the bicephalous monarchy from the area were initiated other military reform projects, whose legislation was relatively long overdue, especially in the Budapest Parliament. These delays, mainly due to the Hungarian political opposition, are closely followed in this study, especially based on the stories in the pages of the most important Romanian newspaper of that period – „Gazeta Transilvaniei”.

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