The 1905 US Army is judged even less prepared for a major war than the force that entered the First World War in 1917. Theodore Roosevelt is the exception to that pessimism. He is imagined leading a counteroffensive that drives German troops from New York and then using the victory to win another presidential campaign. The deliberate speculation separates weak national mobilization from the political effect of a forceful wartime leader.
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Theodore Roosevelt in the 1905 counterfactual
Theodore Roosevelt becomes the counterfactual answer to poor US Army readiness and a German occupation of New York.