The "When diplomacy fails" podcast has a series on all the errors that were made during the month before the war started: http://www.wdfpodcast.com/july-crisis-

The "When diplomacy fails" podcast has a series on all the errors that were made during the month before the war started: http://www.wdfpodcast.com/july-crisis-anniversary-project/ http://www.wdfpodcast.com/july-crisis-anniversary-project/ That war could have been prevented in so, so many ways it is not even funny. Anyone here could have done it, just by not being able to speak German, or by not getting the Czar involved, etc.