World War I was the period from September 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918. To say how this First World War began, it was actually because of an assassination incident, when the Crown Prince of austria-Hungary was in Serbia and was committed suicide by local youth, so the Austro-Hungarian Empire took advantage of this incident to start a war against Serbia. After this, the great powers began to declare war on each other, and just 10 days later, the First World War began to spread across the globe.
In fact, the First World War seemed like a homeland hatred between Austria-Hungary and Serbia, but the assassination was only an opportunity, and the real internal cause was the power struggle between the Allies and the Allies. The Allies, led by Germany, and the Allies, consisting of Britain, the United States, France, and Russia, waged a world war. We all know that in the end the Allies lost to the Allies and signed an armistice on the forests. But in this battle, what is the order of combat capabilities between countries? You may not have a deep understanding, today we will take you to see what the combat strength of various countries was in the 1st World War.
The first thing we want to mention is that the Eastern Front during the First World War was here, and the Russian army was almost completely defeated, and 15 million Russian troops were beaten by Germany. On the Eastern Front, the combined Forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary had the absolute upper hand. From this point of view, the military strength of Russia and Germany at that time was relatively poor. For the Eastern Front, Germany was not yet a complete main force, and Germany's main battlefield was actually on the Western Front.
What was the situation on Germany's Western Front? On the Western Front, the combined forces of Britain, France, and the United States were completely overwhelmed by the German offensive. The peak of casualties reached 10 million, and among them, the casualties of the French army were particularly serious, which showed that France was inferior to britain and the United States at that time.
We have said before that Russia had no decisive advantage in the Eastern Front against the combined forces of Germany and Austria-Hungary, but even so, Russia still held Germany and Austria-Hungary back for 4 years on the Eastern Front. Although it did not gain much advantage, it did not lose its position, so it seems that Russia's military strength, although inferior to Germany's, was still relatively strong at that time.
In fact, Austria-Hungary and Serbia, which first caused the war at that time, were the less militarily powerful side of these countries. Austria-Hungary dared to be so arrogant because of German support, and Serbia had no way to resist the Austro-Hungarian offensive. But russian and French support did not allow Serbia to lose its territory. In fact, it is not difficult to see that the struggle between the two countries is actually promoted by the powerful countries behind it. In the end, the war was declared a failure, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire was forced to disintegrate, which was also the final punishment for the sake of Germany behind.
In general, during the First World War, Germany's military strength was very strong, although it was defeated to a certain extent, because the Allies were too small in number and the Allied countries were so numerous that it was not easy to win the war.
But Germany's military strength is still indisputable, followed by Russia, Britain and the United States should be on par, and France may have been the worst country in military strength at that time.