What strategic military advantages or drawbacks did each side have in terms of technology and military strangth in World War I?

Answer 1

Obviously the Americans had the upperhand when it came to industrial and production power, due to their recent but rapid industrialization (which was sped up after World War 1).

Britain (the United Kingdom) had by far the most powerful navy at the time, and was also one of the major world powers.

Italy, as the first country to use aircraft in military missions (shortly before World War 1 in the Italian-Turkish war) had a more superior airforce, though it was not as dominant compared to the airforces of other countries as the navy of Britain.

Other than that, the major powers in Europe at the time were certainly Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and perhaps, though to a lesser extent, Russia, which lost its dominance as a military power due to the upheaval caused by the Bolshevik revolution.

One of the reason for the formation of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia) and the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy [though Italy never actually fought on the side of the Alliance]) was the desire of all of theses powers to be the dominant world power, especialy Britain and France, which has been world powers for hundreds of years, and Germany, which was a rising power, which caused envy and hatred among the other powers, and Austria Hungary, also a powerful empire. (Turkey and its Ottoman empire had also been a major world power until shortly before the outbreak of World War 1, when it lost the war with Russia, which ended in 1878, and which caused the break up of the empire, which was largely responsible for the outbreak of World War 1, though this was just one of many possible fuses which lit the fire, and if the war hadn't been started when it had, for the reasons it had, the tensions and envy among the major powers would eventualy have snapped and led to war.)

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