Either the Italo-Turkish War or the Second Moroccan Crisis.
Conrad get his way and attack Italy during the Italo-Turkish War, this precipite a Balkan war and soon all other powers are involved in a convoluted conflict.
Either the Italo-Turkish War or the Second Moroccan Crisis.
Conrad get his way and attack Italy during the Italo-Turkish War, this precipite a Balkan war and soon all other powers are involved in a convoluted conflict.
hmmm...interesting, do you know for a fact he wanted to do so? perhaps a surprise attack gives Italy a heavy knock off its ass...considering Italy's performance against the Abyssinians IOTL would maybe unite the empire as an "ideal, splendid little war" (à la Spanish-American War of 1898) to win back Venice, wipe the Empire back into shape. Or yes, a world war can break out but its its not so easy as Austria can argue it is "controlling unprovoked Italian aggression against the helpless Turks/Abyssinians" or secretly signing a defense treaty (finding and/or dusting off an ancient one as an excuse or bending/modifying an existing treaty of some kind (if one exists but i'm sure most of the powers had some kind of diplomatic literature whether meaningful or not connecting them...Also, this Hapsburg surprise attack might possibly accepting as many people in Europe (and America/Japan/Russia/the World) probably would see little reason for Austria in particular to play nice-nice their southern neighbor considering after all, barely a generation ago, Italy most gracelessly stole Venice by opportunistically (some would argue "cowardly") only waiting until Austria was preoccupied by a much better prepared foe in 1866 (Prussia) and even then, didn't for the most part, the Austrians basically hold their ground or at least until Sadowa and basically when it became clear that it was a done deal for Austria, (and yes, i know it could have been a much more worse outcome for them)? While i'm not a 100% sure on the land battles between Italy and Austria i do know that at the end of the war the Italian Fleet tried to seize an Adriantic Island (Lissa) quickly before the War would have ended to have more legit claims to (more and/or existing) claims on Austrian territory, but the Italian action turned into an epic fail when like half of it was destroyed by a smaller Austrian one? Also, looking at that naval battle, i do believe that at some point the Austrian Admiral was talking admirally about how the Venetians were proud to serve in their fleet and that they saw themselves as primarily Venetians above anything else and (possibly) that they didn't try to take advantage of an opportunistic time declare loyalty to Italy or for express any desire for independence from either Italy or Austria...just thoughts lol please people i humbly as yall to please correct me if i am wrong in any way!
Conrad even try to convince the emperor during the earthquake of Messina to attack Italy (he don't like us very much). Nevertheless Austria-Hungary acted more as an Ottoman ally during the Italo-Turkhis war, even openly menacing war if Italy has done some attack in Albania, so things exalating is a real possibility. Regarding Venice (and the rest of Veneto) being 'cowardly stolen' by Austria (who btw simply and unceremenosuly absorbed the Republic of Venice after the Post-napoleon congress without any of the locals have the right to say anything), well it was a war where we were official ally of Prussia and basically the entire plan of war intented to occupy A-H with a two front war so...none as stabbed A-H in the back. Regarding taking back Venetia, well FF and FJ desired to undo the italian unification, unfortunely it was a little too late, there are never existed a serious autonomous movement in Veneto, at lest till the 90's of 10th century, and even at the time was little more than a fringe groups.
Regarding military perfomance, well an attack by Austria will simply be like the OTL WWI italian front only with role reversed, the territory openly favor the defender.