Grey deliberately did not warn Germany beforehand of its secret alliance policy, whereby England would enter a war which engaged any one of the carefully-constructed web of alliance partners England had built up against Germany.9
What is wrong with this? Aren’t many of the agreements we see today secretive.
Some of the military pacts are openly shared with public to act as deterrent to potential bellicose nations, but not necessarily all the time. It’s geostrategy for god’s sake