Re: Blood and Iron
Karl Wagner is a disgruntled middle-aged instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College. He finds himself concerned about the direction which the German nation is headed in—just as he is killed by a terrorist attack. Only to awaken and find himself reborn as an infant, Bruno von Zehntner, the youngest son of a noble family renowned for its part in the German war industry a few years after the founding of the German Empire. Bruno, as he is now known, desires to rewrite history and ensure the German Empire emerges victorious in the coming century. And in doing so, finds himself entrenched in a world filled with Blood and Iron!
The Reintroduction of Specialized Forces
Grand Strategy was a concept few in history were truly adept at. Bruno, however, was operating on a macro scale. Overseeing and micromanaging multiple theaters of war, all while using the limited communications technology of the early 20th century to do so.
GPS was not a thing, nor were cellar telephones, the internet? If Bruno spoke of such things in this day and age, he might as well be forcing himself to undergo a lobotomy at an insane asylum. It was not like he could access a personal end-user device, and instantly send orders to an entire company of soldiers, informing them of where, when, and how to attack.
However, with his more modern understanding of warfare, especially mobile warfare. Bruno had introduced some specialized troops to the battlefield. While Special Forces were a concept mostly derived as a result of lessons learned from the second world war. One man in this world ultimately knew better.