... dunno how much you know about the ... peculiarities of relations between the different german tribes (up to date btw 🤪). Aside being catholic ... never dare to name a bavarain being 'alongside' an austrian (btw what kinda 'austrian: Salzkammergut, Styrian, Viennese, ...) if you dont wanna...
Given Kaiser Bills obsession with the navy (not at least because noone was a true specialist on anval warfare in Germany while Billy - unfortunatly - was only to awar of his lower than mediocre capabilities as a troop leader) would make this
an obstacle of moonsize. ... Moon of Ganymede.
And...
... in relation to what standard?
Given its time - 1914 - the german Army was in each of your named categories THE GOLD STANDARD at least for conscript armies.
Pure mercenary professional armies like the BEF migth have been somewhat more ... 'efficient' at mobilisation but only as every man was...
... actually ... the idea about tanks isn't that far fetched ... if only someone at the Generalinspection of Military Transport ("Verkehrswesen" literally "Tarffic-matters" not the railways-department) - that's where Burstyns proposal was dropped off - wouls have been a wee bit more imaginative...
Develop kinda "Army-Group-Command" encompassing 2-4 Armies (?) under a single command as intermediary between OHL and the single Army.
Would i.e. avoid the leadership problems between 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies IOTL when they were all submitted under the commander of 2nd Army v.Bülow as only an...
What I meant was that they had no idea how to proceed further and to reach what strategical ... operational goals as with the 'Schlieffen/Moltke' plan with which they imaginated such a goal how to overcome/knock out the french army .
What they had - at least until Moltke cashered in all eastern...
... another 'example' of gerontic 'Leadership' of almost(?)-fascistical tainting : Petain (?)
( I try to avoid going for current political gerontocratic leaders of rather ... 'nationalistic'/'konservative revolutionarey'/'schtronckly-back-to-ye-ol'-virtues' color ;-9)
Due to being 'sacked'...
... regardless on my personal opinion of this ... person:
he became chancellor of the FRG at the age of 73
... and still was The Big Boss of postwar Germany through all the postwar challenges there were with Stalin, german rearmament, avoiding 👿 timey german unification, etc., etc. for another...
... than you for ignoring me:
... but you're welcome to teach me different if you can provide some source(s) refuting recorded history.
... yeah ... good ole' coal depenmdency of Italy ...
Pls let me refer to my recent comment regarding this theme (for the felt umpteenth time) :
Something I wanted alread comment on when you said this
as I think you assume some important facts wrong.
Staffel B was right from the start ordered by Conrad - Potiorek actually and officially was suborcinated to him - to attack Serbia from the banks of the Save and Danube as it did IOTL.
...
... well ... the same is then valid to how Russia would develop with 'only' Germany as its 'friend'.
It would be far from as backwards as @Bones101 tries to frame it and its possible economical relations and possible support to Germany as well as its military infrastructure. There would be also...
... sry ... but ... not really answering my question.
You are still talking of GRT numbers.
But I'm asking for Displacement numbers
As only the latter would be looked at from foreign (british) navys due to the numerous naval treaties.
... sry to say but ... I think you view economics, their possibilities and how they were looked at much too much from late 20th and 21 century point of view. The guys in charge in the timeframe we're talking about came from middle to late 19th century and according economical thinking.
... and...
... may it be that you mix up some numbers not comparable?
The Steuben/München was 'measured' for 14660 G R T which as a volume measure has rather few to do with displacemant tonnage - i.e. Washington treaty 'standard' - in which war ships weights were recorded/claimed to be (esp. the...
@raharris1973 ... well
... what did they want this mandschurian influence zone in the first place?
AIUI to 'secure' their holdings in and of Korea.
Now they possibly would like to 'secure' their holdings in and of Mandschuria ?
... and isn't Wladiwostok as the military base it is still MUACH...