Realistically huow much longer could the German Empire have fought on if it had unanimously rejected the Armistice?
>>65646920What if Kaiser Wilhelm II turned into a snake?
>>65646959you made the thread dumbo
If Trump were a soldier in World War I, what branch would he serve in and what would he be? How would he have been described by his comrades?
>>65646977>trump>soldierHe'd just dodge being a soldier via corruption like he did in real life with his "bone spurs".
>>65646980Could you even do that back then though? Figure they'd probably not buy any of his shit, flog him and ship him to war.
>>65646977executed for cowardice
>>65646920A month tops, and I’m being generous. They weren’t even fighting anymore, German officers had no idea how many men they had under their command by November, and Germany had no response to British combined arms. WW2 was basically OHL looking over the shoulder of GHQ 1914-18 in the classroom and copying their exam answers.
>>65646920Answering the question straight faced: Less than a week. >the army on Western front had lost all its gains from Spring and was in full retreat beyond the Hindenburg Line >the Army was short of all supplies and morale completely fucked, whilst the Allies could easily keep up the momentum of the 100 day offensive. >all its allies were done >the Navy was about to and did mutiny >the home front was starving due to the Allied naval blockade >Revolutions had broken out in most major cities
Would it not have been possible to remain on the defensive until the food situation improved, thanks to harvests from the occupied territories on the Eastern Front?
>>65646920>12 third world shill/seethe threads in the catalog>/k/ sleeps>one third world shill/seethe thread in the catalog, but with orange man>picrel
>>65646999Honestly, all skubfags should be behind bars.
>>65646991Dont forget:>Americans showing up and keep showing up in greater numbers>Soldiers arriving to front already malnourished to find there's no food here either>Spanish Flu was about to devastate both sides of the western frontThough the French were also beginning to mutiny where frontline units were refusing to move forward and would only maintain their current positions, but even if the French just stopped attacking entirely the UK and United States were still more than enough to devastate the remaining Germans.
>>65646997No. See above:>>65646987Germany had no answer to these bad boys: https://youtu.be/GdPb5PCpivE?si=hR-yB7yhvMF-GDPV
>>65646999>orange manI like how its just been accepted that he's orange and nobody really cares anymore.
>>65647066>Germany had no answer to these bad boys:By 1918 the Germans had developed pretty good anti-tank tactics like ditches, mines and artillery pieces used as makeshift AT guns. It was the whole combined-arms ecosystem that fucked them up, not tanks alone
>>65647003the French mutinies where long gone in 1918
>>65647072Precisely. The problem prior to 1917 was not that it was impossible to storm a defensive position and hold it, the problem was being to exploit a breakthrough over the churned up and pre-sighted by artillery terrain before Germans could flood reinforcements in the targeted sector to bog down the attack and rebuild a new defensive line. Tanks with their threads allowed bridging equipment, food, fuel, ammo, and reinforcements to be brought up under the fire whereas before the BEF and French army had to rely on vulnerable horses and men keep up the momentum. See the Battle of Hamel 1918 for an example of what I’m talking about.https://youtu.be/IU7f-TVyJFE?si=gB44_5ois7HRgPTuThe breaking of the Hindenburg line was the official moment that German autism finally broke under the weight of reality. OHL told the politicians "forget prolonging the war to secure favorable peace terms. We can’t stop them."
>>65646920like others have said, not very long. they blew their wad trying to end things before the Americans showed up in crushing numbers and couldn't do it. after 4 years of war and blockade they just didn't have it in them anymore.
>>65647094>During the Australian-led attack at Hamel, four British tracked gun carriers transported 20–25 tons of Royal Engineers' supplies to positions just behind the newly captured objective.>Colonel J. F. C. Fuller, writing in 1920, estimated that moving the equivalent quantity by human carrying parties would have required some 1,200 men. The four vehicles accomplished the job with only 20 crewmen.>This was an early demonstration of mechanized battlefield logistics, allowing an offensive to be consolidated without diverting large numbers of infantry into supply duties.Neat. That explains where all the Churchill variants came from.
>>65646923>What if Kaiser Wilhelm II turned into a snake?Would he still love me if he were a snake?
>>65646999>12 third world shill/seethe threads in the catalog>/k/ sleepsThey're rapidly being reported and deleted because mods are not in fact third worldies themselves.>one third world shill/seethe thread in the catalog, but with orange manThe orange man shill/seethe threads stay up because mods won't touch /pol/bait maga threads.btw: to answer the inevitable:>Omsk refinery>Pidorsburg refinery>A missile boat on that naval island of Pidorsburg>friendly-fire downed three helos around Pidorsburg>there may or may not be a missing airliner around Pidorsburg>anniversary of the liberation of Kherson, celebrating/memorialising that is all over Ukie channels right now
>>65647094germans broke through the lines in their 1918 spring offensive basically without any tanks at all. different infantry (storm troopers) and artillery tactics were enough.
>>65647589This. The new artillery tactics that both sides were using (relying on short and intense artillery barrages that relied on surprise and interdiction to achieve their effects) instead of massive long barrages that churned up the ground and telegraphed the attack was already capable of breaking the trenches.
