Why might the machinery of war, set in motion by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, have been difficul?
one major reason was the complex net of political and military alliances . the actual antagonists. Austria and Hungry drew in all of Europe Wilson and America wisely wanted to stay out the British tricked USA with the 'zimmerman telegram' and the sinking of the civilian ship the Lusitania, which was carrying forbidden military suppies ( ammunition) to Britain. About the same time a relevolution was taking place in Russia, communists were involved and the West was terrified of anything like communism. America actually sent troops to fight in Russia AFTER WW I.
well magnetic shields on protest sign were possible to negate the bullets of rifles. also lots of oppossing voices had to be silenced with internment and yapping about sabotoge. there could have been spam boxes to negate the 1914-18 propaganda to get it going . trouble was how to get the phone and mauil services to design a spam box to direct the media propaganda to. citizens had no way of designating propaganda spam uless they asked the post offices to refuse to deliver news papers.
