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Which is why the Navy's monomaniacal backing of USW IOTL was a total and complete flop and the Kaiser never backed the Navy at the expense of the Army before the war, eh?

I should emphasize here again that I'm referring to the Freikorps, i.e. the mass movements immediately post-WWI. These same men will be just as rowdy and just as violent in victorious Wilhelmine Germany as they were in the defeated early-stage Weimar Republic.

Well, these men had little problem with this when they were serving as the Freikorps, so why is this any different?

The challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the rise of the Ummayyads be concurrent with Muhammad leaving no living descendants ala Ali and Hussein. Without living descendants, how does Islam develop in terms of challenges to the Caliphate, as such challenges will inevitably...

They did have the power IOTL, so why wouldn't they in this one? Germany let its military run its war, that was its major problem.

Not to the German Navy, it doesn't.

That he ignored them is hardly an encouraging sign that no USA = Germany wins, isn't it? True, but these weren't just US supply dumps they stopped to loot in the middle of a battle.

And then there's the huge, glaring issue of Germans attacking only to start rifling through Allied supply dumps right in the middle of an attack because they were on starvation riots. It's a crude aspect of 1918 that is generally overlooked but which this POD would be unlikely to change.