BlondieBC
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Now, that is an interesting question. One rarely looks at how the ENTENTE could have won in France by mid 1915. Obviously, if the Germans make more mistakes, then there's an opening. But what they could do off their own bat?
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Grey Wolf
Cancel Gallipoli. The Entente force the Germans to transfer over 300 battalions to the west in August 1915. If you add the up to 15 divisions used at Gallipoli to the 1915 Entente attacks, you might break the German lines. At a minimum, you make the Germans stop attacking Russia sooner.
Or keep Ottomans out of the war. In some respects it was a bidding war for Ottomans, and the UK could have bid a lot more. While it would have seen as an insanely large amount of money to the people at the time, France/UK voiding all concessions by the Ottomans, forgiving all Ottoman debt and giving the Ottomans 50 million pounds would have been cheap compared to the billions spent on the war, and have been enough to get them to likely flip sides. I know I picked insanely high numbers, but I am trying to make the point the British had more than enough stuff to interests the Ottomans. I guess we can argue what date the UK would have needed to change policies, but it is clear that some post 1900 POD can have at least a neutral Ottomans in any great war.
France could have run the previous war plan which was better than the one they used.
UK could have spent more on the army in prewar years. Even a couple extra corp at start of war could have made a difference. Or a real plan to increase war ammunition production. Heavier TOE. etc.
The CP should have won WW1. The Entente got lucky, but there are still things the Entente could have done better that were not that hard.