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  1. Romania enters WW1 in 1917... against the Entente

    VERY likely a topic you will NEVER get an consent about ... neither between historians - not at least due to lack for expereince of tghem with 'logistics' especially of the time in question - nor and esp. not on boards as our forum here . ... too much personal prejud... preferences here;) ...

  2. Romania enters WW1 in 1917... against the Entente

    AFAIK : no It was a small, local counteroffensive for the relief of austrain troops along a river named "Narajiwka" between the towns of Bereshany and Halytsch to stop any further russian advance on 17th Sept. 1916 before the russian offensive was finally called off on 20th september ... won't...

  3. Long Live Sacred Germany: The Oster Conspiracy | Alternate Timeline

    There was a discussion on some question of 'style'. Regardless how 'easy-going' the trope of the brutalized, uncivilized, unruly and generally misbehavioring, dumb crétin of every german in whatever way related to some Nazi organisation might be and 'pleasure' many with their prejudice' served...

  4. Romania enters WW1 in 1917... against the Entente

    IMO yes. ... or it would be very likely (in history with human beings involved nothing is 'guaranteed' 😜 they hava a tendency to react ... humanlike aka irrational). However, Kaiser Bill didn't do very much in terms of determining operations as well as politics before and even more during the...

  5. Romania enters WW1 in 1917... against the Entente

    About food. With Romania in 1916 as well as 1917 harvesting there would be in - 1916 MUACH more food to be purchasable for the CP. ...as IOTL there was only a fraction of what was possible actually harvested therewith considerably alleviating IOTL turnip winter - 1917 there would also at least...

  6. Russia and Germany as allies in an alternate WW1

    I agree on your mathematics about the relative amount of coal imported by Italy. But in the linked post I talked about the absolute numbers regarding coal imported by Italy and also showed how much coal the german mining industry had - at least in the beginning - to spent: - italian imorts...

  7. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    @Glenn239 ... in your stetements you use an awful lot of times "would", "could", "should" regarding british, russian, french decision makers and what they might have or should have or would have thought on contempletated. Aside your own deliberations ... could you name any source hinting at any...

  8. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    ... well ... it's not only this one citation I'm putting 'weight' on. This quote was rather kinda 'finishing move' for a discussion I had in this thread from post #54 on page 3 until the quoted post #169 on page 9 where said topic of railway possibilioties was intensly discussed with a heap of...

  9. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    ... IIRC you mentioned some "agreement" about 'neutralizing' Belgium already in your other post ... What 'agreement' are you talking about? There won't be and didn't had to be an 'agreement. ... simply some non-action of ther german as well as the french army regarding belgian territory would...

  10. What if the German western campaign of 1940 does not invade or occupy Netherlands?

    I would beg to differ. Actually ... Operation Wilfred DID start but was aborted after the detection of the german forces in the Heligoland Bay on 7th April. But NOT without at least one minefield (with real mines) laid before the mouth of Vestfjord of the Lofoten. Another 'minefield' with...

  11. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    ... what point of time IOTL do you have in mind when this decision shall have been (fixed and finally) made? After the 1st cabinet meeting on Sunday 2nd August all what was 'achieved' by the 'hawks' was a permission to offer Cambon the 'protection of the french channel coast' (according to LG...

  12. What if the Republic of German-Austria was successful.

    ... dunno how much you know about the ... peculiarities of relations between the different german tribes (up to date btw 🤪). Aside being catholic ... never dare to name a bavarain being 'alongside' an austrian (btw what kinda 'austrian: Salzkammergut, Styrian, Viennese, ...) if you dont wanna...

  13. Optimize German Army for WW1

    Given Kaiser Bills obsession with the navy (not at least because noone was a true specialist on anval warfare in Germany while Billy - unfortunatly - was only to awar of his lower than mediocre capabilities as a troop leader) would make this an obstacle of moonsize. ... Moon of Ganymede. And...

  14. How could've the Imperial German Army fixed its inefficiencies before WW1?

    ... in relation to what standard? Given its time - 1914 - the german Army was in each of your named categories THE GOLD STANDARD at least for conscript armies. Pure mercenary professional armies like the BEF migth have been somewhat more ... 'efficient' at mobilisation but only as every man was...

  15. Optimize German Army for WW1

    ... actually ... the idea about tanks isn't that far fetched ... if only someone at the Generalinspection of Military Transport ("Verkehrswesen" literally "Tarffic-matters" not the railways-department) - that's where Burstyns proposal was dropped off - wouls have been a wee bit more imaginative...

  16. Optimize German Army for WW1

    Develop kinda "Army-Group-Command" encompassing 2-4 Armies (?) under a single command as intermediary between OHL and the single Army. Would i.e. avoid the leadership problems between 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies IOTL when they were all submitted under the commander of 2nd Army v.Bülow as only an...

  17. AHWI: No schlieffen plan

    What I meant was that they had no idea how to proceed further and to reach what strategical ... operational goals as with the 'Schlieffen/Moltke' plan with which they imaginated such a goal how to overcome/knock out the french army . What they had - at least until Moltke cashered in all eastern...

  18. A surviving Lord Kitchener in a Central Powers victory TL? Plausibility Check.

    ... another 'example' of gerontic 'Leadership' of almost(?)-fascistical tainting : Petain (?) ( I try to avoid going for current political gerontocratic leaders of rather ... 'nationalistic'/'konservative revolutionarey'/'schtronckly-back-to-ye-ol'-virtues' color ;-9) Due to being 'sacked'...

  19. A surviving Lord Kitchener in a Central Powers victory TL? Plausibility Check.

    ... regardless on my personal opinion of this ... person: he became chancellor of the FRG at the age of 73 ... and still was The Big Boss of postwar Germany through all the postwar challenges there were with Stalin, german rearmament, avoiding 👿 timey german unification, etc., etc. for another...

  20. Russia and Germany as allies in an alternate WW1

    ... than you for ignoring me: ... but you're welcome to teach me different if you can provide some source(s) refuting recorded history. ... yeah ... good ole' coal depenmdency of Italy ... Pls let me refer to my recent comment regarding this theme (for the felt umpteenth time) :
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