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History suggests this is simply not true. Not many people have dominated continental Europe. The only examples I can think of before 1914 are the Roman Empire and Napoleon and the latter decisively failed to bring Britain to heel while the former was faced with a disunited and uncivilized...

I'm pretty sure by 1914 Parliament has real power. The government can put the words "at all costs" in their policy, but they're a fiction because that's not the government's decision to make. I'm not certain if they need parliament's express permission to go to war, but they at least need...

Here's a crazy thought: Can the British Empire be preserved not by a change in Britain or its colonies, but a change in Germany? Let's start with Germany adopting a Russia first policy instead of a France first policy. Someone in the general staff seems to have predicted trench warfare based...