WI: The powers of ww1 had today's weaponry

gaijin

Banned
Who would win if each side had modern day weaponry? (not limited to what a certain country produced meaning Germans can have American tech and vice versa)

They wouldn't know how to use and or maintain it. They also don't have the doctrine to go with said weapons. All sides hunker down for the next five years to try to figure out how to use all this stuff.

Modern toys don't make an army, the ability to use the toys you have make an army.
 
They wouldn't know how to use and or maintain it. They also don't have the doctrine to go with said weapons. All sides hunker down for the next five years to try to figure out how to use all this stuff.

Modern toys don't make an army, the ability to use the toys you have make an army.
Pfff... doctrine? Who needed doctrine in 1914?

Point about using and maintain them, though. A stealth fighter is useless if your pilots and crew barely know their way around an unarmed wooden biplane.
 

gaijin

Banned
Pfff... doctrine? Who needed doctrine in 1914?

Point about using and maintain them, though. A stealth fighter is useless if your pilots and crew barely know their way around an unarmed wooden biplane.

That's what I mean. Most of this stuff would end up standing about rusting away.

The stealth fighter is indeed useless, especially considering the other side hasn't worked out how to use those radar sets they have.

This belongs in ASB (just like most other threads made by the OP).
 
That's what I mean. Most of this stuff would end up standing about rusting away.

The stealth fighter is indeed useless, especially considering the other side hasn't worked out how to use those radar sets they have.

This belongs in ASB (just like most other threads made by the OP).
Can't the new guns, land vehicles, ships be made useful though?
 
To avoid indulging in ASB, I assume the idea is that Europe has evolved to modern days with modern weapons yet retained the same Great, Major and Minor powers of circa 1914. If they accomplish this without any wars such as WW1 or 2, then they had a fair share of proxy wars or a war in Asia not threating enough to spark a fight back home or something uniting Europe to assert renewed domination, such a war(s) to spur weapon development along with doctrine yet without the other costs. If they learned how to do this then they are just sitting in one long standing Cold War, the nuclear arsenals negate adventurism in Europe. Or they got past the July Crisis and the reality of trade linkages increasingly made war too costly to indulge in, the Europeans stood down to rather anemic defense forces aside from what may be needed to police shipping lanes and quell colonial issues, and it is all Waltzes, rainbows and happiness. Unfortunately too many jumping off points for a big war before the nuclear option quells things.
 

Wallet

Banned
You know what's sad? When I first saw this cartoon at six or seven, I was astonished to think the last two people on Earth would kill each other.

Now, I'd be astonished if they DIDN'T.
I always thought they didn't know they were the two last people on earth. They probably thought thousands of soldiers were behind them
 
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