Quote Originally Posted by Meothar View Post
Without intervention of the USA, Germany would perhaps been able to delay the end of the war until 1920 or such, but no chance for winning.
But I think it's not the right place to discuss this. WW1 was one big military mistake.
I don't think so. In 1917/18 the British gained one decisive military advantage over the Germans: tanks. The British already had them in mass production while the Germans were still only having a handful prototypes of useless designs. The ability to literally just roll through and over enemy lines is a major turning point in military doctrine. This experience led the German military to focus their attention on tank warfare much more intensively in the decades between the World Wars than the Allies, thus enabling Nazi-Germany to effectively blitz all of western Europe, not with better tanks but with a better understanding of the possibilities and necessities of tank warfare.