[Olog-hai]

They would have been next either way. France is the road to the island of Britain.

It was also a case of honoring a treaty with Belgium.

There was no excuse for Germany to disrespect Belgium’s neutrality any more than thinking they could rewrite the Cruiser Rules to suit themselves.

[dfwgator]

I didn’t see anything to suggest that Germany had designs on Britain.

[Lee Enfield]

While I believe that Germany got the shaft in WWI I do agree they should not have invaded Belgium. In retrospect a Russia first policy may have been the way to go. The forces that beat back the Russian invasion of East Prussia were not the elite of the German army, nor were they comparatively numerous. A strong, fortified defensive line on the German French border would have crushed the French army. A mobile reserve could be held back in case the Allies decided to go through Belgium, but that would still leave the bulk of the German Army on the Eastern front where a quick and decisive defeat of Russia could have destabilized the Russian Govt. enough as to put it out of the war.

[Lee Enfield]

England would still have entered the war due to her commitments to the Entente Cordial.