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The Poles no longer are the big dogs who can boss over the Ukrainians in return for siding with the "Germans" against the "Czechs" in the Austrian Parliament. This influence garnering role is now gone, but maybe they toady up to the Magyars ... The Hungarians are diluted even further - down from...

Not enough of them to matter.

Adding Galicia to Hungary - an idea which did rear its ugly head around 1900 would cause a revolt among all three concerned parties - Hungarians, Poles and Ukrainians ...

There is neither nothing "obvious" nor "cannot compete" here. In 1890-1913 Russia doubled its GDP, same as Germany. In terms of GDP the two were roughly similar. Per capita is a different story, of course. But with Russia having three times the population and a lower starting point it was likely...

I remember reading a quote stating same for German Army, that Verdun+Somme killed off their pre-war trained infantry. BTW - again going by memory - in 1914 the BEF in France suffered 120% casualties. By the end of the year these "Regulars" were a mix of reservists and new enlistees.

1 - I've see the "cannot become Policeman/something like that if no Army service" given as yet another reason for not drafting seditious urban boys. How true - I dunno ... 2 - the story of French artillery expansion plans c.1914 is somewhere on AH.com;

Interesting - I've always read that recruits from "land und kleinstadt" recruitment districts were overrepresented due to politics and not health. But considering British problems with finding fit men among their urban poor this makes a lot of sense ... Also - I've read that not having done...

An obscene, perverse concept would be going max TriUne (Kraina, Croatia, Dalmatia, Bosnia, Kustenland, some bits and pieces of Karynthia and Styria) and adding Serbia to the resulting Kingdom of Croatia ... :p Like I've said before in other threads - the UK re-examining its options in the later...

Considering that the Hungarian franchise was 1% of the population (male population? total population?) I imagine that FF could find support among the disenfranchised masses for any "at bayonet-point" restructuring of the Crown of Szent Istvan. Mind you - between c.1880 and up to WWI the...

Very interesting questions. Sadly I know too little to contribute :( IMO the sooner FJ pops his cogs the better for A-H. Simply making A-H spend as much per capita on its military as Germany ten years before 1914 would be a history changer. Hitting French, British or Russian spending levels...