If WW1 had continued into 1919 and 1920 would those years have resembled WW2 more than 1914-16?

With the greater emphasis on mobilized tanks and air assaults as well as more portable automated weaponry.

Would the warfare in a WW1 that lasted a couple more years been closer to the fighting of WW2 than that of the start of WW1?
 
Only if somehow Germany can continue to hold off the Allies. Which requires some PODs in 1917-18 or earlier. Maybe Austria-Hungary needs to be more effective in fighting both Italy and Russia and so remain intact into 1919. Or a peace signed with Russia in late 1917 so Germany can get some resources from the Ukraine by mid -1918. Could Italy be kept out of the war?

The problem is that a better performance by the Central Powers means the Allies may collapse instead! So no fighting in 1919.

Certainly the British army intended to use tanks to exploit breakthroughs more rapidly in 1919. So the war would become more mobile. But probably not like 1940+.
 
The Armistice actually made the food crisis worse, though.

It did... but that raises the question of what could have resulted in the food crisis being any BETTER without an earlier POD. That's kind of the problem on Germany's side with this scenario: even if they want to implement the new technology, they don't have the economic wiggle-room at this point to do so.
 
It did... but that raises the question of what could have resulted in the food crisis being any BETTER without an earlier POD. That's kind of the problem on Germany's side with this scenario: even if they want to implement the new technology, they don't have the economic wiggle-room at this point to do so.

How so? Is it because of the Allied occupation of the Rhineland?

Baltic fishing fleets were shut down, and they were also required to surrender about 1.5 million tons of foodstuffs stored in Army depots; @wiking has also stated the Allies originally sourced their food for the Rhineland occupation largely from local sources, IIRC. Basically, they'd be fine food wise, should the war go on, not even assuming Ukraine grain can finally arrive sometime in 1919.
 

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With the greater emphasis on mobilized tanks and air assaults as well as more portable automated weaponry.

Would the warfare in a WW1 that lasted a couple more years been closer to the fighting of WW2 than that of the start of WW1?
For what it's worth, there are arguments in this thread that, if Germany would have been able to maintain sufficient discipline within its military, things would have gotten harder rather than easier for the Entente:

http://otherhistory.proboards.com/thread/1428/germany-hold-1919?page=5
 
Baltic fishing fleets were shut down, and they were also required to surrender about 1.5 million tons of foodstuffs stored in Army depots; @wiking has also stated the Allies originally sourced their food for the Rhineland occupation largely from local sources, IIRC. Basically, they'd be fine food wise, should the war go on, not even assuming Ukraine grain can finally arrive sometime in 1919.

Yah... the later part isen't going to happen considering the Ukrainian State is rife with uprisings, has a bunch of crippled/destroyed infastructure, and in general doesn't have the stability/control over its territory to effectively collect that amount of grain and export it to Germany and A-H without some HEAVY involvement by the German military. While the German Army will certainly be able to eat for a few more months, at least, I'd hardly call Germany "fine" food-wise in even the medium term: the civilian population is starving to the point that even with extremely heavy-handed rationing you're seeing people flee into the countryside to salvage for food... to say nothing of the near-complete breakdown of the domestic situation in A-H. Average caloric intake isen't high enough to sustain survival in the long term, much less heavy labor in a war economy.

Militarily, the German army can last into 1919, but they aren't in a position to enforce any peace that could be cast as "winning". Just losing less badly by convincing the Entente to come to the negotiating table by leveraging their remaining ability to deal military damage.
 
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