The author believed that the German militarism was going to be the start of something bad. In this document, there is a German soldier holding a very large rifle and is walking in the direction away from civilization, peace, and progress and towards war and barbarism. Strangely enough, the Germans had invested an additional fifty million pounds to their already extremely large military. Militarism was the most important cause of World War One because because the country Germany was investing millions of pounds to their already very large military. Once Austria-Hungary declared war, this was Germany’s chance to finally use their powerful military. It would not make sense if this country just wanted to spend so much money on their armies for no reason. In other words, they were building up their military more and more, all they needed was a reason to use it. The Germans used a cunning plan called the Schlieffen plan where the Germans would invade Belgium with their new and powerful army. Then they would use Belgium to invade France and then take on