There was plenty of damfoolness to go around, as the Euromonarchies entered the final act. Q Victoria's peace plan was a piece plan -- married off her daughters to the greatest of the royal houses of Europe. Y'know, because dynastic squabbles over who's more qualified to rule have always amounted to a hill of beans. :^D Particularly in England. /jk
True that. Hapsburgs and Romanovs come to mind.
And the military strategists? Never heard of a tactic other than frontal assault? How could two generals be so incompetent as to fight 12 Battles of the Isonzo and nobody won any of them?