re: #309 Feline Fearless Leader

Between _Guns of August_ and Massie’s _Dreadnought_ you can get a real good view of how politically screwed up Europe was in the 1900-1915 period. Wasn’t a question of “Would there be a war?” as compared to “When will the war start?”

That’s always been my take on WWI. It happened primarily because everyone expected it to. The expectation led them to basically load the gun and cock it, and rest their collective finger on the trigger so it only took a twitch to fire it.