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!
Rejecting the Schlieffen Plan
The world was changing, and rapidly at that. There was no denying this any longer. The future of the battlefield was uncertain. And with the launch of the HMS dreadnought, the Naval Arms race between the German Reich and the British Empire had entered a new phase.
Meanwhile, Bruno was meeting with the leaders of the German Army. The Schlieffen plan was first proposed during the year Bruno was active in the Russian Civil War. But once the war was over, and the Russian Empire was on friendlier terms with the German Reich than it had ever been before, the plan suddenly seemed nonsensical.
Was war with Russia and France truly certain at this point? I mean, Bruno had thrown a wrench in the plans to gain Russia's allegiance to the Dual Entente currently enacted between France and Britain. In addition to this, the Kaiser had leaked the evidence that France was actually behind the attack on Bruno's life that happened on Russian Soil.