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How much could WWI Germany have avoided self-inflicted economic wounds? How
could this have changed performance and outcomes in WWI?

On WWII, The "smart money" credible consensus on the premier AH discussion sites is that because they lacked certain threshold resources, Germany could not have improved its WWII performance much and outcomes at all by different mobilization or resource allocation choices.

Does the same hold true for WWI, or could the Germans have managed their economic constraints better to such a degree that:

a) they can keep fighting into 1919 or 1920 even if they lose?
b) they can still win with a a PoD after December 1916?
c) they can withstand the effects of blockade enough through 1917 so that they do not conclude unrestricted submarine warfare is an absolute "must" that year?
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