Currently an OCT at JMRC Germany where we host and train American forces and their NATO allies. It's the smallest training center, only able to hold a Brigade level sized fight. We've gone to a Decisive Action Training Environment or DATE (aka Force-on-Force) and keep the COIN for Stability OPs...
I'm thinking that WWI as we know it may have been quite different or avoidable altogether. The Battle of Tsu-shima was an importatnt learning curve to the British, establishing the significance of large guns and speed for modern battleships, which began a naval arms race (that had already had...
This may have already been discussed and if such, I apologize. Was again reading The Guns of August, and was struck how the author Barbara Tuchman argued Russia's loss to the Japanese at the Battle of Tsu-Shima destabilized the balance of power in Europe, emboldened the Central Powers...
I hesitate to point out that we are under the assumptions to believe that one, a new government would have evolved from the death of Hitler in March, 1943, and two, that this new government would seek peace at a more opportune moment such as 1944. I realize that there is some validity to this...