DBWI: AHC: German Empire Loses The Great War

I doubt that the great Dictators would have arisen in Russia, France, and Britain. Mosely, Foch, and Tuckhavchesky would probably only be footnotes in history. That probably would butterfly away the Second Great War as we knew it, caused by Frances remilitarization of the Sienne. Italy....I dont know what would have happened there, i would imagine thar Catholic Rightists would have taken over in the losing environment there.
 
Actually, having the Germans lose would be fairly easy. The Sukhomlinov strategy is one of the great underconsidered aspects of the war of 1914/15. He was the only military leader of the time to have truly adapted the insights of Jean Bloch into his approach, calling for a war of attrition that the Entente could have won. That is, of course, had anyone listened to him instead of betting on the likes of Foch and his ridiculous 'spirit of the attack' thing. The Entente weren't actually beaten in 1915 by any stretch of the imagination, they simply gave up. Though to be fair, nobody in his right mind had expected the punishing terms the Germans would impose on France. The Treaty of Metz was the start of the next war, surely.
 
It might sound patriotistic, but I believe that it was our Emperor Karl who is to "blame" for our sucess. This bloody butcher Franz Conrad (you might know him as v. Hötzendorf) first urged to go to war versus Italy, Serbia, whomever ... ant then when the decison for war was there started to cry for "more time". Fortunately Karl (with the Help of Archduke Eugen and several generals - all famous now) were able to persuded Emperor FJ to fire Conrad. This was the best decision of the war. Conrad would have executed an agressive "attack at all costs" war. Fortunately the new general staff decided toexecute a pure defensive strategy and let impale the Russians themselves. Imagine if Conrad had tried the same. A-H would have lost its trained units early. Then Germany would have needed to shift troops to the Eastern front to cover up Austrian incompetence. Withoout those defensive sucesses I doubt that the ottoman Empire and Bulgaria woudl have joined our alliance. And even the Romanians joined almost on the last days of the war - not that it helped much - the Russians might have fought into Early 1916 insted of asking for an armistice in December 1915.

OK stop the rant ;9 those facts are knwn by all ;)

I think keep Conrad and the A-H army gets butchered. Italy would join the Entente (as it almost did OTL). Russia would stay offensive and teh EGrmans would have had to send troops to the east. Even OTL we could only win in the west when we used massed Burstyn Kanonenwagen formations to push through the French trenches late 1916.
 
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