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But this does not exhaust the helpful part played by

Rumania. It may have been bad strategy for her to penetrate deep into Transylvania rather than to guard the passes and wait to be attacked, but at any rate her action had some very good results. It forced the Germans into a hurricane campaign. The Hungarians immediately made it a condition of their loyalty to Germany that such a campaign should take place. But when Germany organizes one of her desperate rushes she does so by collecting her very best troops from other fronts and then forcing them along at a pace which, though it can be kept up for a few weeks, is amazingly destructive of men and material. Operations of this kind can only be justified from the military point of view if the goal can be rushed in the first attack.

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