Naturally, as the Great War stretched from its expected quick resolution into a prolonged conflict of attrition, these organizations evolved rapidly. What began as single departments expanded into full-fledged agencies, and these agencies, driven by wartime necessity, eventually grew to achieve ministry-level status and influence, commanding significant resources and political attention.
Amid this, in 1916.
When the two-front war reached its peak.
Some figures in the British cabinet came to think this way.
"If the war ends like this..."
"Won't France and Russia divide Europe after Germany disappears?"
"This structure is dangerous!"
It was concern about the post-war structure.
If the Franco-Russian Alliance becomes even stronger through the anti-German war and Germany, which had been restraining French and Russian armies, disappears, they might divide Western and Eastern Europe.
