Dave, we are not in court, and I am not posing as a historian. All I write about facts of history is FWIW, and I often would not know how to find the primary sources even if I had to - which I have not. The main dispute is not about facts at all, as you noticed before.

Does anybody here seriously believe that the German invasion of Belgium came as a total surprise (- the fact, not the exact time and tactics)? If it was expected by the French (government, military, and public), but not by the British, would that not be terribly stupid of the latter, far below "donkeys"?

The media will refresh our schooldays memories in the course of this year. I expect that the "kaiser's fleet theory" will once more be discussed, which occurs in the context of "balance of power policy" in the sense I described above.