Recent content by HSC

I'm not seriously proposing this, however if you view the First World War as a German defensive war, and that if Germany could do everything right diplomatically and still draw a coalition of great powers around her that want to carve her up, then might as well break out of your encirclement and...

I'm not looking to write alternate history (although I do make maps from time to time) however I'm trying to evaluate Germany's foreign policy through counterfactual analysis. If even today, with all we know now, it's still extremely difficult to see Germany pursuing any diplomatic options on...

Wow, thanks Dachs! Why is it that France (which had a much smaller navy than Germany) had the ability to threaten Britain's colonies and Germany could not develop such a power? Could the German's never "win" the naval race, that is create an even bigger fleet than historically (say add in...

I've been lurking on this forum for far too long, so I decided that it was time to create an account and actually contribute :) I've been reading Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Life in Power by Christopher Clark (Penguin Books, 2009) and towards the end of the chapter on Wilhelm and Foreign Policy...