Afghanistan Enters WWI on the Side of the Central Powers

1. OK.

2. OK.

Also, though, how exactly would the peace terms have looked like for Afghanistan in this scenario both during Brest-Litovsk and after the end of World War I?

Indeed, any thoughts on this?

Two things:

1. Wouldn't Afghanistan try acquiring some Russian territory in the 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?

2. Could Britain successfully create anti-government ethnic rebellions in Afghanistan just like Britain did with the Arab Revolt in the Ottoman Empire during World War I in real life?

Indeed, any thoughts on these two questions of mine?

 1) - That would require an Afghan attack that starts in say 1915-16 lasting until early 1918, which I suspect is unlikely.

 2)  Possibly with some of the non-Pathan/Pashtuns elements, although that could be risky with the fact there are such elements on the British side of the line that could react.

 3) More likely I hope would be to stirr up internal tribal rivaries and possibly set up a rival claimant to the throne to whoever is leading a war against Britain.

1. The Ottomans and Germans had been trying to woo Afghanistan once the war broke out. The Ottomans wanted to use the Afghans as a way to expand their holding within Persia, Central Asia, and the Russian Caucasus. The German diplomat sent to Afghanistan (Baron Max von Oppenheim) Said that the population was not one to be underestimated as they were a powerful and prideful people. They figured that if the Afghans managed to penetrate the Indus Valley that India itself would rise up in rebellion against the British rule.

2. The Russians were facing issues along it's border with Afghanistan already, mainly with the Kazakhs and a few other people's groups that rose up against being forced to join the army, their main population base was within the central Asian mountains and gave a large (if not weak) barrier to Russian operations against the nation.

3. To answer the question, you would be looking at roughly 140,000 men (50,000 being the regular army with a supplement of 90.000 tribesmen that would be mainly armed with spears, swords, old firearms etc.) They would be attacking into the Pashtun region, an area that was high in terms of national identity and (albiet unlikely) willing to rise up against the British. The Pashtun people created seven regiments (70,000 men) during the war and five were sent to the western front. One was sent to Mesopotamia and the other to Egypt. So let's say that another 30,000 actually decide to join the Afghan forces (the population of the area is rather small even today, I don't have the exact numbers though) so that's 170,000 men attacking along a 100 mile front. They would have no hope of getting really any supplies from the Central powers as Persia was under partial occupation by the British, and they had an intensive spy network already in place. The English could muster ~120,000 men in India if need be, Portugal had three regiments within their territories in India and depending on the time are part of the Entente, and if worst comes to worst, the Japanese would be more then likely willing to send aid as after 1914, the Japanese had little to no fighting left to do.