Recent content by raharris1973

In part to Zionist immigration an political projects, but only in part. Part of it was also quite simply “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” alliance machinations against the mandatory powers, Britain and France. The Mufti’s strife was over Jewish Zionist migration and activity, but also...

I’m wondering if the Romanians sat out 1916, if that would really mean Falkenhayn wouldn’t be fired and Hindy and Ludy promoted, since Romanian entry was the excuse used to fire Falkenhayn. That might pull things in a few different directions: Possibly no submarine unrestricted warfare - good...

No it’s not as ambitious but it could make for a motive to blot out and “erase” and “cleanse” “mistakes of history” and make “raum” for those who “should” be there. It would have been more achievable than Germans trying to fill up so much space of nearly equally densely populated Slavdom.

Good question - would it? The Czechs and Little Entente actually never ended up doing anything to Poland nor ever hurt Poland nor contributed to Poland's 1939 downfall. Poland just picked at the bones of an already mortally wounded Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Their rivalry and lack of...

Why? Because no matter the level of local, tactical and operational defeat, Poland would fight on and insist on having its whole territory back until its last Army or is destroyed and its last acre is occupied? The Poles won't "reduce their expectations" once they lose many battles and...

Too bad the British spent all of 1925-through March 1939 flinching from what would ultimately be their bottom line: "no es bueno to invade-o Poland-o". But Britain made a diplomatic fetish in the interwar, right up until the guarantee of April 1939, of *not* guaranteeing the borders of...

Which parts of OTL are inevitable in any border-changing German war with Poland? *All* of them? Step 1. War leading to complete destruction and complete partition of 2nd Polish Republic, no rumps allowed. Step 2. Genocidal occupation of Polish lands while occupation lands Step 3. Further...

Any "pan" national movement - Pan-Slavic, Pan-Arab, Pan-Germanic, Pan-Turkic or Pan-Turanian, Pan-Iranian, Pan-Bantu, Pan-Malay, with an anti-minoritarian or pro-"purification" streak seeking to root out and exclude ethnonational groups not fitting properly under whatever "pan-[blank]" identity...

OK - so west-first bias by the Great General staff, all along, consistently, since 1905, and only vagueness regarding the east. ......so nothing at all in your remarks in disagreement with @1962strat 's main points. I honestly wonder how much the alleged Moltke the Elder and Waldersee...

Maybe there would be pre-war development of armored cars and armored vehicles, several with caterpillar tracks instead of wheels and rubber tires for off-roading. And these could be designed for more speed and maneuver around potential entrenchments to try to secure and sustain victories in the...

Still waiting for an answer on Romania @Thoresby - I mean, I humbly request one, it would be cool. You're not under obligation to produce one just because I asked in post #15 about what you said in post #14.

Good points.

I am not certain what bottom line you are arriving at: But if this is telling, if Schlieffen and little Moltke never said anything about how to beat Russia, that makes it sound very hard or impossible for Germany to have tried an east-first military approach in 1914. .... But then, you say...

Very creative and interesting! But what is the German purpose, objective, and endgame here? Occupy the North Sea ports? - for later long-term naval use? So no one else has them? To own their Belgian and Dutch hinterlands to territorially buffer and secure most of northwest Germany including...

Congressmen Teller of Colorado and the people who voted for his Amendment did not get the secret memo and the secret handshake, d'oh!!! ;)