Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-13740085-20140322054844/@comment-1310192-20140420174511

"tactics and planning" that belong to decent strategic advance, rather than the Austrian army. Also, why would the hopeless romantics in the Italian army abandon Venice with barely a fight? And why would the Austrians not have its own troops be weakened at the Isonzo to the same level, or even worse off, than the Italians, given that these have less weapons, less military experience and a far worse leadership?

Also, that is assuming Germany, France or Britain would not be concerned at Austria 1. Betraying its former ally (for Germany), 2. making a resurgence, 3. taking land the French and Prussians fought for them to lose, and all in all, causing the next First World War in any plausible scenario.