I'm not sure there is a successful version of this battle for the British, because if you assess the Turks capabilities accurately it probably doesn't get launched in the first place.
Didn't we have this same discussion last week? And I think @EasternRomanEmpire has summed it up pretty nicely. I would only add that the damage done in the occupied regions of Belgium and France mean that the status quo ante was impossible regardless.
Isn't that rather a repeat of the WWI strategy, which lead to an overcrowded battlespace in Belgium and hampered German operations. Also given the Third Reich had already demonstrated a complete disregard for neutrality in Denmark I can't imagine why they would baulk at invading the Netherlands.
Its possible for the Entente to lose, but the burden of that defeat will fall on the Belgians and the French. Germany just has no power to impose terms on the British and indeed if the Germans want a lasting peace and access to foreign markets they probably need to get out off Belgium or at the...
You understand that repeating that doesn't make it any more accurate? USW was what outraged the US government, being a direct threat to their shipping and something they had already forced the Germans to stop once. The Germans resumed it gambling that it would achieve results before the...
Its amazing how even the titles of your selected sources makes their biases clear. The reasons why this sort of idea won't work have been explained across multiple threads. You seem to be taking what were nothing more than idle specualations on the Entente side as carved in stone and at the...
At the end of the day it made for a fascinating idea in a science fiction novel, but as the basis for a real world political system? i suspect it winds up more like Sparta than Athens.
But that still bring serious issues. What if there is a major war and the draft is necessary? Will the draftees get citizenship? if they do how will those who previously served feel when they see their voting power diluted by all these lightweights who had to be forced to serve?
That and his Stark books, which are less well known as they came out before he hit it big with the Lost Fleet. For David Weber, has to be March to the Stars.
And this is the essential flaw in Heinlein's idea, those who've earned their citizenship by going and fighting insurgents in some godforsaken corner of the world or other hazardous duty are not going to be happy that someone else gets it for staying in some leafy military housing facility and...
Because they probably didn't realize the full extent of what was going to be offered, or intended to renege at the first opportunity, or indeed just change their minds because they had a couple of days to think about it. You only have to look at Ludendorff's conduct in 1918, seeking an armistice...
You're POD doesn't really work, as long as USW is in play, and as has been pointed out a great many people in the USA didn't believe the telegram was real. The USA had forced the Germans to back down from USW by threatening action the last time Germany tried it, so yes it would lead to war with...