1914: Starting with the Rejection of the Schlieffen Plan

After the gunshots in Sarajevo rang out, it was the great Prince Oscar who resolved the world war!

By limiting the Third Balkan War to Eastern Europe and preventing it from spreading across the whole world, isn’t that the same as saving billions of lives?

What? You say the British and the Franks merely got tricked by bait and morality into standing by to watch the tiger fight, and will sooner or later come down themselves to cause trouble? That’s fine, that would just be another war, so it doesn’t count as a world war.

Years later, historians would sigh in admiration from Oscar’s authentic records: his military strategy far surpassed Moltke’s, his contribution to army building far exceeded Count Roon’s, but none of that was the most important.

His deadliest ability was his diplomatic skill, stronger than Bismarck’s and Su Qin and Zhang Yi’s by a hundredfold.

He even miraculously managed to make the other great powers line up and take turns attacking one by one, instead of ganging up on him all at once, so that in the end he could defeat them separately.