The Balkan Wars 1912-13 as Prelude to the Great War

[paja]

Gentlemen,

Thank you for your kind replies. I agree with you Paul, and I believe that after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand it was just a matter of day when will the war begin. As you noticed accepting of Austrian ultimatum would probably just prolong it for a while. From those ten points of ultimatum I find one more very interesting, Serbia was to remove from the Army and administration all of the officers and other personel from the list that was to be delivered by Austrians. And the government accepted even that.

As for the military budgets from that period, I agree that that would be very strong indicator about the intentions of great powers at that time, unfortunatelly I can't find some serious material that deals with this matter specifically.

Regards,

Radmilo

[IrishGunner]

A curious bit of news to remember this topic...

Bulgaria sells captured rifles back to Turkey...