I'd like to turn this topic in this direction if I could, while encouraging you to keep debating established discussions. I was away from the computer for a couple days and came back a lot of helpful stuff so thank you everyone.
As I'm writing a piece of fiction, I can play around with the...
This has been some great input, thanks everybody. I'm going to continue to ask leading questions in hopes of getting more opinions.
You're Germany. You just walloped the French like it was no big deal. How would a brilliant tactician win the rest of the war at this point? Obviously you would...
Let's put it this way, I am developing a back story for a piece of science fiction. In this piece, Germany wins the first World War, and gradually develops into the dominant world power. The Kluck and von Bulow armies getting separated under Moltke's command seems like one of those pivotal...
Moltke is out of the picture, the Schlieffen Plan works successfully and the Germans knock out Paris right away. What happens? Feel free to talk about the events immediately following the fall of Paris, the 20th century as a whole (no protracted Great War, no stab in the back theory, no Hitler...