How to start WWI in 1911?

The idea is that WWI breaks out anytime between 1909 and 1911. I guess the Moroccan Crisis is an option. But I need to read soms of your ideas about it. Like how it develops.
 
Perhaps something out of the Ottoman Italy war.

The Ottomans retained formal overlords hip over Egypt but the UK controlled Egypt and didn't allow Ottoman troops to match through Egypt. Perhaps the Germans could encourage the Ottomans to take offense over this.
 
Perhaps something out of the Ottoman Italy war.

The Ottomans retained formal overlords hip over Egypt but the UK controlled Egypt and didn't allow Ottoman troops to match through Egypt. Perhaps the Germans could encourage the Ottomans to take offense over this.

Italy is part of the Triple Alliance,so a German ally. I think it's far more likely that Britain might take offense to the violation of the status quo and threaten to intervene in defense of the Empire. Have Italy turn to Germany with the threat of leaving the Alliance without at least diplomatic backing,and things start falling apart as the navies in the Med stare at one another with itchy trigger fingers
 
Imagine if Karl Parsons of Germany had invented the steam turbine instead of Charles Parsons of Britain. Karl builds a sleek new ship, Turbinia, which excites the German navy. Here in the UK let's imagine that instead of being creatively mad Jackie Fisher is instead an unimaginative old duffer. He pooh-poohs turbines and when finally pushed to come up with a spectacular new battleship he champions HMS Leviathan, a wasteful disaster of a ship that has big guns but poor speed and no seahandling. No-one cares because Britain is and always will rule the waves.

Meanwhile the Germans launch a successful all-big-gun, turbine-powered battleship in 1906. The German Navy tells the Kaiser that each of their new Nichtsfürchten-class battleships can take on two British battleships and win - and fight three to a stalemate. They're probably wrong, but groupthink takes over. At the very least the new ship can wipe out any British vessel smaller than a battleship before it can enter firing range, and can overhaul Britain's battleship force.

The German Navy also tells the Kaiser that Britain is desperately trying to regain lost ground, but for a short window of just a few years the German navy can dominate the North Sea. Not the entire world, only the North Sea, but that's enough. I imagine that would speed up the outbreak of the Great War.
 
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