Clashes Between GNA And LNA Forces Continue Near Tripoli Airport (Map Update)

>>>I’d wonder what the actual objectives in ww2 and ww1 were. Saving Poland wasn’t probably it. A useful cause belli but no desire to save them I’d bet. History is written by the winners you can’t trust it.<<<

It probably originally was to save Poland. Of course Germany was starting to get out of control and something had to be done about it at some point. And then it became a question of national survival, especially for the British, and then about who ended where on the map of Europe once the fighting would stop.

As for WW1, every country had its own reasons. The French wanted Alsace Lorraine back at all cost, the British did not want one strong continental power on the European mainland, the Germans feared encirclement on many fronts, the Austrians that the rise of Slav nationalism might breakup their empire, I’m sure the Czar had his plans too. By the time the war got really going nobody was still following their original war aims any more and it became more of a case of stubbornly trying to win at all costs, no matter what meager benefits could be gained by it. In the end the French did regain Alsace Lorraine, but it had broken France’s back in lost manpower and national morale, and she would never recover, causing its unprecedented defeat in 1940. In the end no country that was among the winners was satisfied by the victory. They were just glad that it was over.

Funny thing about WW2 history writing is that a massive part of it was done by the losers. German generals wrote the history of that war, especially on the Eastern Front. Which is why we have to this day the idea that Hitler was a moron who refused to listen to his sensible generals, who only lost because of Hitler and the endless swarms of Russians throwing themselves at the Germans with reckless abandon. And of course none of these Germans knew anything about what happening behind the frontline. No sir, what war crimes?

>>>Still though I think new round of weaponry is called for. Next gen tactical nukes drone swarms space weapons who knows what else can be innovated to bring victory to the battlefield.<<<

New weapons rarely change warfare that greatly. It’s how armies use those weapons in what way that determines how wars are won. The Germans won for a long time because they were smart enough to use combined arms warfare, a tactic that the Allies had used against them in 1918 but for some strange reason had forgotten by 1940. Once Germany’s enemies got their shit back in order and relearned the art of combined arms warfare the Germans lost their advantage and started losing.

>>>I’ve never had much luck understanding diplomacy. I like to play online strategy games. I almost always end up getting ganged up and wiped out lol. But I have fun dying gloriously in battle fighting half a dozen enraged enemies.<<<

In which case you should learn how to make alliances with other players and learn to play them against each other. In which case you also learn how diplomacy works.

I don’t think that taking Paris would cause the French to collapse in WW1 though. They were much more determined and resolved back then then in 1940. It didn’t even win the Germans the 1870, as they had to besiege Paris until 1871. The real knockout was destroying the French army at Sedan. And the whole point of the Schlieffenplan was to annihilate the French army. Sucker them into Alsace Lorraine, as was the French war plan, draw them deep into Germany, then come in from behind through Belgium and the Netherlands and crush them. It was one giant attempt at creating a decisive battle.

I reckon the aims of getting some North African colonies was just extra bonus the Kaiser tacked on for good measure. The real aim was to prevent a two front war between France on one end and Russia on the other. That had been the point of the Schlieffen plan since before Wilhelm II became emperor. The German Schlieffen plan WAS the German war aim and strategy. Everything else, like it making any sense to go to war, if was smart to piss of the British, or why colonies were even necessary, was made irrelevant to the plan. The warplan became the goal in itself, whatever strategic benefits could be gained would be sorted out after the war. And it had to be carried out at some point soon, before the Russian army had modernized to such a point that it could mobilize more rapidly then the time frame allotted for the German army to defeat France. It’s a very interesting case as to what happens when you let the generals call the shots, and not the politicians.

It really was a strange clusterfuck where every military staff was enslaved to their war plans and feared that whoever got to mobilize their armies first and send their war plan into action would get the upper hand. So the moment a crisis erupted all the politicians got badgered by their general staffs to order a mobilization and start the war. Akin to how during the Cold War both sides feared a nuclear sneak attack so it was really tempting to do that sneak attack first.