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Grey said it directly in one of the dispatches during one of the Balkans crises, literally, that it was feared that if Britain did not...

When the Kaiser and Moltke had their argument, the Kaiser stated that he would send his whole army east to defeat the Russians, (ie, all...

If the French make peace with the Germans after the Russians have done so, then that's the ultimate British nightmare of a continental...

The British in 1870 would have been enormously surprised to discover that no formal treaty was required, because at the outbreak of the...

Interesting take. My assumption was slightly different. In discussions of WW1 or WW2, the Russians/Soviets can sometimes be treated...

I think it's the cognitive dissonance between the British belief that a) if they fail the Entente, the Russians would confront the CPs...

If Belgium and Luxembourg were made neutral by agreement of Germany, France and Britain after war broke out, then the military...

The Germans spent the first two years of the war attempting to detach the Russians from the Entente diplomatically, and Russia's Western...

The fear was that if not supported Russia would switch sides. Grey actually expressed this outright during one of the Balkans Crises in...

Increase the shell reserve.

Probably not. The logistics constraints and French reserves would probably be enough to keep the Germans out of Paris even assuming a...

@RedSword12 is correct about the Entente not knowing how badly things were going inside the Central Powers but also if the French and...

Assuming a refused German right has defeated the French left after this has advanced through the Ardennes, then the Germans could opt to...

The basic choices in the immediate aftermath of such a decision would be to either hold the full strength of the Western German armies...

The British cabinet had already ruled by the end of July 1914 that its obligations towards Belgium would not determine British policy...