Russia managed to mobilize 12,000,000 soldiers from 1914 - 1918. Russia had a population of 166 million in 1914...

Because Russians were sitting on their ass for century and a half, only started rapidly industrializing in the 1890s. Germany actually wanted to attack Russia in 1914 precisely because they thought it's the right time to strike before Russia could fully industrialize.

Germany's population in 1914 was 66 million.

> Most developed logistics

The US stood up 5 million, drafting men across a continent in a few months and got them across the ocean.

It's like people really buy the "USA surged ahead post WWII because everyone else was blown up!" meme.

Like it came out of nowhere.

It didn't, the US was the largest economy by at least 1890. It's military was tiny and shitty, but it's economy was the most advanced. This is why by the 30s 1 in 4 American households had cars while Hitler's big push was to get to 1 in 15, something they didn't achieve.

Fucking kraut reproducing themselves like Somalian

Or to put it another way, in 1914 the US GDP was well over double Germany's, while the population difference was 68 to 99 million.

god i love american capitalism

Military logistics isn't the same as economic strength though and your statement about the mobilisation isn't true either. The US had a tiny army and wasn't militarily prepared for a mass conflict. It took many more months before the US had a substantial force in Europe and before that force saw any combat. America joined the war in April, by the end of October they numbered a bit less than 90k.

Why didnt Germany just fight Rusaia one on one and forget about Belgium and France? Russia had an alliance with UK right?

No, France and Russia had an alliance. The UK had no formal alliance with neither France or Russia.

in 1914 germany's logistical capacity was far more advanced than the united states, who at that point had a very small military. In 1917-18 the US was definitely far superior, but when the war started nobody but germany could have assembled and marched so quickly and with such a massive amount of men and resources. When Germany marched to war in 1914 it revolutionized how armies move and operate, the United States couldnt match that in 1914, nobody could. France could barely mobilize a defense in their own territory and german logistics were dealing with foreign fronts all over europe and winning, all because of the immense logistical superiority. Germany has less resources to work with but they mobilized them faster than anyone, as the other user said GDP does not directly translate to logistical prowess.

>what is the Anglo-Russian Entente

If you took 5 seconds to look it up you'd know it wasn't a military alliance.

Hmmm......it appears that you are correct. Sorry about that. Okay, so Germany mobilized 16% of their population during the war, whereas Russia only mobilized 7% of their population from 1914 - 1918. There is still a disparity, although it is admittedly less pronounced when the correct numbers are used.

This. The Russian economy was more labor-dependent, whereas the German economy was more capital-centric.

There's different types of logistics user.

What you are talking about is mobilization, the ability to assemble an army as fast as possible and smash the enemy before their army is together. This was a thing in Europe because the great European powers were close to each other and didn't have the luxury of time or space to trade. Prussia was at the forefront of mobilization since before the Franco-Prussian war, and won that war on a large part due to it's faster mobilization. The model was subsequently copied by every great power except the UK.

There are tradeoffs thou. In order to have an optimal mobilization, everything had to be on precise timetables to take advantage of railroad availability, and once mobilized, the armies are not flexible. Preparing for a mobilization also costs a shitload of money, since the bedrock of WW1 era mobilization is the reserves system, which eats 3 of the most productive years of your male labor force.

> Germany has less resources to work with but they mobilized them faster than anyone

This is WW1, Germany had more resources to work with than everyone else, being the most populous industrialized European country. But yes, they were faster than everyone else. All the more impressive considering that mobilization is not something you get to rehearse like modern military excercises.

How exactly does one get mobilized in bum fuck 1914 Russia anyway when the closest post office is like 50 km away?

The army rolls up and forces you to join.

>Prussia was at the forefront of mobilization since before the Franco-Prussian war, and won that war on a large part due to it's faster mobilization. The model was subsequently copied by every great power except the UK

WW1 Germany is an entirely different beast than Prussia in the late 19th, we're talking a much larger scale in both manpower and distance traveled and with the employment of revolutionary technology

>This is WW1, Germany had more resources to work with than everyone else,
they had more procesed resources on hand and had the logistical support to transport those resources, but their territory as a whole was dwarfed in just about every logistical capacity when compared to the combined potential of all their enemies. With austria being fucking useless the entire war and the ottomans being a paper tiger, germany carried the weight of a world war on its shoulders and held command over just about every notable victory amongst them. 2 years into the war, with a much smaller population and industrial capacity when compared to all of the entente forces combined they had to fight, they were winning the war in the east and pushing back a desperate france and england with the germans at the gates of paris. No matter how you slice it, germany put on a hell of a show with inferior resources and only really tuckered out when they literally ran out of people. They were strategically doomed from the start when considering how outnumbered their side of the world was when compared to the other in just about everything, and yet it didnt show until they were completely bled of resources. Other nations crumbled far before, russia crumbled not even coming close to utilizing its entire population or resources, and that wasnt even the german focus, it was suppose to be austria's job to take the brunt of russian attacks but they fell apart from a strong breeze leaving the germs to do it all