They’ve been talking about this idea for five years minimum. They keep circling back to the problem...the non-German recruit has to speak German, and that stalls any progress on the idea.
Add onto this issue...constant fear to too many ‘right-wingers’ in the current group, constant logistical issues, etc.
Yup. The mobilization orders for the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914 were printed in eleven different languages. They had chronic and eventually crippling communications problems and were pretty much done as an effective fighting force by the end of the first year. They had a basic German language lexicon of about 70 words - that was the professionals that went into the war. The draftees who replaced them didn't even have that. Their diversity was NOT their strength.