WHAT IF... BRITAIN HAD REMAINED NEUTRAL IN WWI?
“ALTHOUGH WEAKENED, GERMANY WOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKING TO REVIVE ITS NAVAL ARMS RACE WITH BRITAIN”
The catalyst for Britain entering World War I was in the manner of Germany’s strategy. The Schlieffen Plan was intended to allow the German army to attack and knock out France quickly before turning its full attention eastwards to slow-mobilising Russia, but for this to work meant going through Belgium. As the 1839 Treaty of London assured the protection of Belgian neutrality by European powers, including Britain, such an invasion could not be tolerated. So it was Germany’s desire for speed that
