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The prophecy of Alexandru Marghiloman: “If things do not go well, it is in the interest of the Crown to have me as backup”
Sunday, August 27, 1916. The Crown Council of Romania is convened at the Cotroceni Palace in Bucharest. Unlike the Crown Council of August 1914 where Romania’s neutrality was decided on the onset of the First World War, things were different now. King Ferdinand of...
Hypothesis Z, criticized even by the Germans
Immediately after joining the Entente, the Romanian army quickly entered Transylvania according to a plan of operations called Hypothesis Z. This plan had many weaknesses and came to be criticized by the Germans themselves. On August 27, 1916, at nine o’clock in the...
Hypothesis Z, or when you can never start a plan too early
On August 27, 1916, Romania entered the First World War on the side of the Entente. The battle plan of the Romanian army, called Hypothesis Z, provided for an offensive with the majority of its forces in Transylvania and an active defence of the border with Bulgaria....