Tanks.
It's already proven a practical and mature assault weapon in the Battle of Amiens, when the Anglo-French troops proved that the the Kaiser's Army was no longer Europe's best. The sturmtruppen tactic, characterized by high casualty among elite soldiers, was simply no match for the Entente (primarily French) industrial might.
In a hypothetical battle in 1919:
Hundreds of 194mm Saint Chamond self-propelled guns would first pound the German artillery positions;
then, thousands of Renault FT-17, with infantry coordination, would cut through German lines like knife through butter;
indestructible FCM2C heavy tank could clean up any mean to counter armour the Germans had.
The Americans would add to the group Tank Mark VIII, the zenith of rhomboidal tanks;
Massive amount of Ford 3-Tons, probably tens of thousands of machine gun carriers.
It's only a matter of how many tanks would be placed in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Germany would be soundly defeated, leaving no suspense for a Back-Stab-Legend.
The successful experience using massive amount of tanks, marked different from that of 1918 with its scale and maturity, would progress the development of tank theories. The French might give birth to a guerre éclair doctrine post war.
It's already proven a practical and mature assault weapon in the Battle of Amiens, when the Anglo-French troops proved that the the Kaiser's Army was no longer Europe's best. The sturmtruppen tactic, characterized by high casualty among elite soldiers, was simply no match for the Entente (primarily French) industrial might.
In a hypothetical battle in 1919:
Hundreds of 194mm Saint Chamond self-propelled guns would first pound the German artillery positions;
then, thousands of Renault FT-17, with infantry coordination, would cut through German lines like knife through butter;
indestructible FCM2C heavy tank could clean up any mean to counter armour the Germans had.
The Americans would add to the group Tank Mark VIII, the zenith of rhomboidal tanks;
Massive amount of Ford 3-Tons, probably tens of thousands of machine gun carriers.
It's only a matter of how many tanks would be placed in front of the Brandenburg Gate.
Germany would be soundly defeated, leaving no suspense for a Back-Stab-Legend.
The successful experience using massive amount of tanks, marked different from that of 1918 with its scale and maturity, would progress the development of tank theories. The French might give birth to a guerre éclair doctrine post war.