Axis & Allies - damowords

Battle Plans
ʺThe Great Powers have gauranteed their pacts
With pledges of mutual assurance,
Why should we wait their concerted attacks,
I have a plan to beat the alliance;ʺ
Von Schlieffen spits
Intrigueing his Kaiser,
ʺMy second Austerlitz murders France & Russia!ʺ
ʺGo on,ʺ said Wilhelm, ʺSire, I feel
The method of victory,
One massive, military wheel
Thro Belgic neutrality,
Executed with speed & zeal,
Cut Paris from the sea,
& with French arms extinguishʹd by the blow
We shall turn all our strength upon Moscow.ʺ
The Kasier nods, ʺWe must grow strong,
The struggle surely near!ʺ
A marching song, for right or wrong
The white doves disappear,
As Prussian militʹrism strides into a higher gear
Potsdam
1905
Dreadnaught
The Scramble for Africa completed
The Kaiser‐Reich bedeckʹd with meagre spoil
As a sense of destiny deep‐seated
Sets her expansive ambitions aboil;
Proud German steel
Must sculpt a High Seas Fleet,
What grand designs revealed with British might to meet
Admirals fill the Baltic seas
With maritime manouveres,
ʺIf they grow then by same degrees
Must we improve our forces!ʺ
First Sea Lord, Churchill, this agrees,
ʺLike Prince Rupertʹs horses
We must ensure the kudos remains ours
To strike great fear into foreign powers!ʺ
Rivalry slowly turns to hate
(The hate that turns to war),
With ʺWe want eight & we wonʹt wait!ʺ
The fisher‐english roar,
Their seat exalted challenged in the oceans yon the shore.
Portsmouth
1910