"Your Highness, let us wait until we have seen the other motorcycles perform before making a decision," Deputy Chief of Staff General von Waldow suggested. In truth, he was trying to smooth things over.
The other generals also echoed him. No one present was a fool; naturally, they could see Moltke the Younger's coldness toward Oscar. Moltke the Younger did not even want the Army to purchase the military motorcycles produced by Oscar's factories. Yet these military motorcycles performed exceptionally well, and equipping them would certainly improve the military's combat effectiveness.
This alone showed that Moltke the Younger was an extremely selfish man. He acted solely according to his own preferences, never considering whether something would benefit the country. Moreover, he was stubborn, arrogant, and self-righteous, always believing himself to be the greatest military strategist under heaven and everyone else beneath notice. All he wanted was to achieve a career even more glorious than that of his uncle, Moltke the Elder.
As the former former Chief of Staff of the German Army, Moltke the Elder had led the Prussian army to defeat numerous great powers, helped Wilhelm I unify Germany, and established immortal achievements. Such accomplishments had always inspired Moltke the Younger.
Unfortunately, Moltke the Younger possessed such ambitions but none of the ability to match them. With his eyes set above his head, he altered the battle plan left behind by his predecessor, General Schlieffen, before World War I even began. This prevented the German military from achieving a breakthrough on the Western Front at the outset of the war, plunging them into a stalemate and ultimately causing Germany to lose the war. Although, in another timeline, responsibility for Germany's defeat could not be placed entirely on Moltke the Younger, there was no denying that he bore an inescapable