How did Austria-Hungarian Empire get rekt by a 15x smaller country? Is this the most humiliating defeat in German history, or was Serbia just Prussian tier?
>>18737960as stated before, serbia had military experience and beat the ottoman empire a year prior, and then bulgaria only a few months prior, so the men were used to war.
>>18737960Why do you make the assumption size and military power have a direct correlation? Serbia was a highly militarized state and the largest ethnic group in Bosnia and Vojvodina at the time, which gave them plenty of advantage.
>>18737960Did you even look at your own screenshot? That's almost a 1 to 1 ratio, and the number of soldiers on the front is what matters, not the number of civilians at home. If they didn't have to send the bulk of their army to fight Russia in Galicia they likely could have defeated Serbia.Also, Serbia had an absolutely gigantic intelligence advantage. Alfred Redl gave the Russians literally everything, war plans, orders of battle, fortification maps, mobilization schedules, you name it, and in turn the Russians gave it to the Serbs.
>>18738030Russians did not give anything to Serbs, nor did they have a way to do that, as they had no connection to Russia. Serbia didn't really have outside support until it already fell and the UK invaded Greece, from which a new counter-offensive was planned by Greeks, Serbs and Brits.
>>187380301. The ratio of killed is 1.4, in case you're not good at math. That's embarrassing considering Austrian-Hungarian army were professional soldiers who were not underequipped.2. Number of soldiers is not all that matters, for Serbia that was almost every single male mobilized, meaning most were untrained, conscripted soldiers, whereas most soldiers of austria-hungary were professional soldiers. Austria-Hungary also had a huge wartime stockpile advantage of ammunition, food and weapons.
>>18738048they were not untrained because they had just fought against ottomans and bulgarians the year prior, it was a highly militarized society full of trained soldiers and the austrians severely underestimated the losses they'd have to take
>>18738050>>18738048id even say that relative to its size, ww1 serbia is the most militarized any society has ever been to this day, and that includes prussia
>>18738050>>18738053and especially serbs in montenegro, they were a militarized society for literally centuries
>>18738037They were given the intel before the war. Mind you that Redl was outed and killed himself a year before the war started, it wasn't recent intel, though it was mostly still up to date.>>18738048>most soldiers of austria-hungary were professional soldiersThey were overwhelmingly conscript soldiers.>Austria-Hungary also had a huge wartime stockpile advantage of ammunition, food and weapons.The Austro-Hungarian army had been severely underfunded for decades.>meaning most were untrainedAs the other anon said, their army was full of Balkan War veterans.You don't know what you're talking about.
>>18737960>Is this the most humiliating defeat in German history>German
>>18737960austria sucked and serbia was op
>>18738152Austrians are just mountain krauts.
