I was looking up something slightly different on wikipedia, and found the following:
So, what if the Germans make such a deal with the Ottomans and push their luck sometime in the late 1900s.
What does a world look like where the British response triggers the alt-Great War.
My opinion is that from about 1890 until about 1915, Great Britain unknowingly had its foot on the neck of any Power that sought to sustain large-scale industrial warfare in the face of determined British disapproval due to its stranglehold on the nitrate supply. Given this, any war is likely to be quite short and result in the British side's victory.
What impact would this have on international perceptions of Britain, as well as British perceptions of what it was capable of?
wikipedia said:In The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, author Daniel Yergin notes that the Carter Doctrine "bore striking similarities" to a 1903 British declaration, in which British Foreign Secretary Lord Landsdowne warned Russia and Germany that the British would "regard the establishment of a naval base or of a fortified port in the Persian Gulf by any other power as a very grave menace to British interests, and we should certainly resist it with all the means at our disposal."[3]
So, what if the Germans make such a deal with the Ottomans and push their luck sometime in the late 1900s.
What does a world look like where the British response triggers the alt-Great War.
My opinion is that from about 1890 until about 1915, Great Britain unknowingly had its foot on the neck of any Power that sought to sustain large-scale industrial warfare in the face of determined British disapproval due to its stranglehold on the nitrate supply. Given this, any war is likely to be quite short and result in the British side's victory.
What impact would this have on international perceptions of Britain, as well as British perceptions of what it was capable of?