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That statement pissed me off. I have family murdered by the Soviets.

This description is not that far from e.g. 16th century England ...

And this is why, boys and girls, I don't understand such vehement opposition to Russia getting the Straits. Yet another resource sink for Russia to pour - and likely mismanage - its money into. I don't think Russian thinking had reached Breakout Fleet levels yet. IMO at this point in time...

Serbia could be supported in one of two possible ways: 1 - Salonika, as in OTL due to port and RR; 2 - Ottoman-Bulgarian combo - here the port would be Istambul and the RR through Bulgaria. Montenegro and Albania have no RR connections through roadless mountains to Serbia. Invading one neutral...

I suspect some British myth/whitewashing Churchill. What difference do eight battalions of men with rifles make? ADDED LATER: Antwerp was a fully equipped and manned fortress, plus the whole Belgian field army was there. Hence IMO two brigades of RN reservists with rifles were of ... let us be...

I take a very dim view of A-H policy - Vienna is IMO very likely to reject Bulgarian aid. Why? Because Bulgaria would make territorial demands which - if granted - would make it stronger, something which A-H perceives not to be in its interest. No "powerful slavic state" in the Balkans was...

Your version looks more correct than mine :) BTW - I take it that Vasilefs = Basileos in more modern Greek?

I read that in "God's Playground", a history of Poland, by Norman Davies. Yes, quite undiplomatic of him, Old Chap! In OTL we had Mister ADHD grabbing the ships. Seriously - for the RN two ships, built to non-British specifications, acquired out of the blue - that's more bother than its worth...

Yup. I was disgusted at my last workplace at the nastiness towards Ukrainians displayed by some of my co-workers. Some of whom - those Polish co-workers, I mean - having a history of being guest workers in the UK, France or Germany and being abused there. We hates him too, my Precious, we...

Overblown as in "everybody in Poland conspired and prayed on an everyday basis for Restoration. And everybody was into the resistance to the Partitioning Powers and their actions were 100% effective." I'd not be surprised if the Irish had similar mythos. Ukranians working in Poland - there is...

Oh, yes, I oversimplified the issue! :) It is not healthy to say that out loud within hearing of mainstream Polish historians, educators, politicians ... :) I'm one of those who - GASP! - thinks that Kashubian is a separate language. Or who does not consider it strange that Masurians or...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Redl Beating children for speaking the wrong language in school was normal for that those times - France and Britain both did it. Having more Poles in situ than before the Hakata (that's the Polish name for the collonisation commission) started to work is...

Going by very hazy memory (hence caveat emptor!) there was an - what's the idiom? ebb and flow? - of "defend salient" versus "concentrate beyond the Niemen and Bug" strategies, depending on the strength of "Russia stronk" sentiment ATM in Sankt Peterburg dating back to the Crimean War or so. Of...

This is a point I have some issues with. And this leading to greater and/or earlier expansion of fortifications in Kingdom of Poland. Germany always had two war plans - mostly east and mostly west. Both periodically updated. Which was simply natural and Russia knew this perfectly well. And in...

I'll read it some day :) I can't quote figures against it as what I've read was online, on boards like this. The arguments I've seen is that "no US loans means end of current modus operandi", there being alternatives. In all armies 1914 was all about attack. Also, Russia was treaty bound to...

After the Japanese War all fortresses east of the Bug and Niemen were deactivated, the sole exception being Modlin. Reactivation c.1912 and some breaking ground for new forts that year, but mostly 1913. Besides Modlin and Dęblin, there was Ossowiec, Warsaw - where by 1912 some forts had...

As to Modlin: 1 - the inner ring of forts was from the late 1880s - minimally modernised, these were useless in 1915; 2 - the construction of the outer ring of forts began in 1912. By 1914 these were in various stages of completion - some barely touched upon, some half way through, some almost...

Heavy artillery - and other Corps Troops - were "federal". Landwehr/Honved Divisions were included in KuK Corps. By "SI into FJ" I mean a fanfic story where a fanboy's consciousness is placed in Franz Josef's mind. Imagine the fun things you would do if you (hence SI="self insert") woke up in...

@sillygoose Please do not confuse the KuK Landwehr and Kiraly Honved with some sort of "National Guard" or 2nd line formation. It was just as 1st line as the KK Armee. It had a different name and the money came not from the "Imperial and Royal" budget, but the two "Royal" budgets, yet otherwise...

IMO the Austro-Hungarians embarrass themselves in Serbia as in OTL, but here it would irrelevant. Kicking out the Russians beyond the Bug and Neman by September/October is what matters. And in 1915 - without the Italian Front - we are looking at the CP reaching the Dvina-Dnepr line.