WWI US don't intervene. Consequences?

Just on the manpower thing, I would be curious as to the effect, ramp up and potential of colonial troups in the UK and France.
There definitely was a lot of propaganda about "100 million people in the Empire to defend France!", including in the factories. It does not help with material but we could see a deeper recruitment in the colonies, for combatants and non-combatants, if promises of citizenship or better status are made, which would have extremely interesting butterflies

How many officers did they have who knew native languages? Or natives who spoke French?

They might get some recruits but I'd expect the numbers to be modest.

The real fun would be if Britain tried to extend conscription to Ireland!!
 
How many officers did they have who knew native languages? Or natives who spoke French?

They might get some recruits but I'd expect the numbers to be modest.

The real fun would be if Britain tried to extend conscription to Ireland!!
How much French/Native do they need to know though?
"Reload", "Wait", "Charge" and a few others... At the time, a lot of people did not speak standard French. Most famously, most of the soldiers from Britanny barely spoke French, if at all.
If promises are made, and held, that also mean you need less troups in the colonies, especially if most of the able bodied men are in the métropole instead of revolting.
It's the classic 1940 France Fights On scenario, a desperate France draws more from its colonial reserves with the reward of citizenship, Français par le Sang Versé and all that. You could also expect a salary, a pension, possibility of careers in civil service as well...
 

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Better examine how the KuK forces operated in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, only the K.K. forces were majority German speaking Officers, NCOs and Troops
Standing army yes, but IIRC the majority of infantry were Slavs who were just required to know a limited amount of German as the language of command; reservists in practice knew no German. There was at least one interesting case of a platoon with something like 12-13 languages between them and the only one they all knew was some English, so the language of command ended up being English.
 
Was there any precedent to this?

Somewhat, at least in terms of political discussion. For a number of years the French government had been discussing the possibility of expanding mandatory military service to the population of Algeria, and weather or not that would require expanding French citizenship to the local Muslims (without the previous restrictions/requirements).
 
So, I just had another thought. No American involvement might mean no Spanish flu which first hit the Entente.
What would that do to the military capabilities?
 
Somewhat, at least in terms of political discussion. For a number of years the French government had been discussing the possibility of expanding mandatory military service to the population of Algeria, and weather or not that would require expanding French citizenship to the local Muslims (without the previous restrictions/requirements).
What was the conclusion of this discussion? I would understand limited citizenship but not full, at least not during this time period.
 
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