Why were they so incompetent? The Austrians seemed to lose every battle in ww1...

Conrad was a meme
He kept planning grandiose, knockout-blow attacks his military was in no shape to undertake

>mfw the enemy attacks through a mountain range during winter

>conrad von hotzendorf

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>Dude let's have 3 armies and 20 languages!

Kek, with massive support from the germans and the bulgarians. By the end of ww1 the begged france to stop the romanians who were going for vienna

Unironically this. If Aryans weren't so autistic they probably could have won both wars. WW2 was almost as much of a communication travesty between Germany and Japan. They allied together and then didn't even acknowledge each other.

>Conrad's legacy as a commander remains controversial, with earlier historians regarding him as a military genius, while more recent works characterize him as an utter failure; at least one military historian considered him to be "probably the best strategist of the war."

wow those pockets are so fucking bad

what the fuck was his problem?

OH NONONONO

Weren't they winning on their fronts though?

you could say Otto's performance at Monte Grappa was von Below average

wait why did italy do so well in WW1 but do shit in WW2

Italy didn't do well in the first one either but I think mousolini turkey believed Italy was a military power that could rival the allies. It wasn't

The Austro-Hungarian Imperial Army did badly in the opening stages of the war because of homophobia. The penalty for male homosexual activity was death. The general in charge of training, who was also a titled member of the Imperial family, was in the closet because of this. The Russian Army's Counter-Intelligence people obtained proof of this (they stole letters between the general and the other officer, and maybe photos as well) and used these to blackmail him into providing the official assessments of all the strengths and weaknesses (training, equipment, etc.)of the every unit in the Army and their commanders. This gave the Russians an overwhelming advantage in the opening stages of the war.

user these are the kinds
of things you should really provide a citation with
Also that doesn’t explain why their performance continued to be awful throughout the war

aryans did win both world wars. Not all Aryans are Germanic.

Not that hard to find out the guys name. Any good book on the Austrian Army will provide enough details to get you started.

In war, it is very hard to make up a bad start.

Learn to MS paint, retard.

Magyars' refusing to fund the army pre-war.

>Conrad, on the other hand, who had been recalled to the post of chief of staff in December 1912, remained robotically committed to a war policy. But his authority was on the wane. In May 1913, it was discovered that Colonel Alfred Redl, former chief of military counter-intelligence and chief of staff of 8th Army Corps in Prague, had been routinely passing top-level Austrian military secrets to St Petersburg, including entire mobilization schedules, the outlines of which were forwarded in turn by the Russians to Belgrade. The scandal shed an unflattering light on Conrad’s skills as a military administrator, to say the least, for all appointments at this level were his responsibility. Redl was a flamboyant homosexual whose indiscreet and expensive liaisons made him an easy target for the blackmail specialists of Russian intelligence. How, one might ask, had this escaped the notice of Conrad, the man who had been responsible for monitoring Redl’s progress since 1906? It was widely noted that Conrad took little interest in this aspect of his work and had only a sketchy acquaintance with many of the most senior military appointees. He compounded his error by having the disgraced colonel pressed to commit suicide with a pistol handed to him in a hotel room. Redl turned the pistol on himself, an ugly dénouement that offended the devoutly Catholic heir to the throne and – more to the point – deprived the General Staff of the opportunity to extract from Redl a full account of what had been passed to St Petersburg and how.

>Clark, Christopher. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (p. 116). HarperCollins.

>This may have been Conrad’s precise intention, for it emerged that the persons involved in trafficking Austrian military secrets included a staff officer of South Slav heritage by the name of Čedomil Jandrić, who happened to be a close friend of Conrad’s son, Kurt. Čedomil and Kurt had been classmates at the Military Academy and often went out drinking and merrymaking together. Evidence emerged to suggest that Jandrić, together with the Italian mistress of Hötzendorf junior (in this respect, at least, Kurt was a chip off the old block) and various other friends from their circle had been involved in selling military secrets to the Italians, most of which were then passed by the Italians to St Petersburg. Kurt von Hötzendorf may himself have been directly implicated in espionage activity for the Russians, if the claims of Colonel Mikhail Alekseevich Svechin, who was then military intelligence chief for the St Petersburg military district, are to be believed. Svechin later recalled that the Austrian agents supplying Russia with high-quality military intelligence included the chief of staff’s son, who, it was claimed, had stolen into his father’s study and removed General Staff war-planning documents for copying. The impact of these bizarre entanglements on Conrad can easily be imagined. The full extent of Kurt von Hötzendorf’s culpability (if indeed he was himself an agent) was not revealed at the time, but at a high-ranking meeting chaired by Conrad in Vienna during May 1913, it was announced that the young man had been found guilty of withholding important information about his compromised associates. Having urged the meeting to mete out the severest possible penalty, Conrad became dizzy, surrendered the chair and was obliged briefly to leave the room. 150 For all his arrogance, the staff chief was profoundly demoralized by the Redl disaster, so much so that he was uncharacteristically quiet during the summer months of 1913.151

>It began at a Vienna dinner party in 1907, when the two happened to be seated together. A week or so later, Conrad presented himself at the Reininghaus villa in the Operngasse and announced to his hostess: "I am terribly in love with you and have only one thought in my head: that you should become my wife." Taken aback, Gina replied that this was completely out of the question; she was bound by a "sevenfold commitment" in the form of a husband and six children. "Nevertheless," Conrad persevered, "I shall never rest--this wish will be my guiding star." A day or so later, an adjutant popped by to inform Reininghaus that, in view of the staff chief's fragile mental state, she should think twice before depriving him of hope.
>He also wrote love letters, sometimes several a day. But since it was impossible to post them to his intended without risking a scandal, he collated him in an album bearing the title "Diary of my Suffering."
>In all, he accumulated over 3,000 letters between 1907 and 1915, some stretching to sixty pages in length. Gina became aware of the album's existence only after his death.
Source: The Sleepwalkers

>They Raped the Romanians senseless.
More like Germans raped Romanians for them. Austrians were still getting rekt regularly.

>Dude let's have 3 armies and 20 languages!
Yeah, nah, not really unique to the Habsburg Empire. A total of 4 old Empires with extensive multiethnic populaces fought in WWI and they all fought with the same ethnic clusterfuck armies as the Austro-Hungarians did.

Excluding colonial empires because they aren't real empires anyway (i.e. composite states where component peoples are all classified as subjects to a central imperial power, i.e. dynasty)

I'm not him. Citations I posted needless to say don't back what he says at all. I posted the only thing remotely similar

>allies are beyond useless
>still manage to dominate the eastern front, break through the Italian lines and hold out in the west for 4 years against three great powers
How the fuck did Germany do it?

It's mad that they lasted as long as they did with useless cunts like the austrians and turks holding them back

>tfw your allies make Italy look somewhat competent
Gotta give it to their army and all, but their diplomatic corps must've sucked ass

They didn't have mechs or landships

The Turks were a formidable force in ww1, they beat the British on several occasions and beat the Greeks after losing most of their empire. Problem was simply that they never had the industry to keep up and were to far away.

This is basically how it went

>Austria prepare massive autist plan which will clearly fail
>Germans tell them not to do it because it will obviously fail
>do it anyway and say they don't need Germany
>fail miserably
>Germany has to waste precious resources to bale them out
>Austria threatens to surrender every time Germany pressurises them
>repeat

Their two allies in the war were basically failed states, got to hand it to the German war machine for doing as well as they did.