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Now, at the same time the Austro-Hungarian Empire-- the army is--
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all the cracks that were quite predicted and predictable,
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there are all sorts of problems there.
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And Franz Joseph
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has died in 1916,
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and so the Germans are quite unsure whether the Austro-Hungarian empire
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is going to be able to hold on fighting against the Italians,
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for example; and remember that brest-Litovsk
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is not signed until March of 1918.
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And the Americans have, by spring of 1918,
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325,000 soldiers.
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That's not a huge number of soldiers