Rashin nasarar Girka a yakin Girka-Turkiya na 1897 ya nuna rashin ƙarfi da yawa na sojojin Girka. Ƙoƙarin ci gaba da sabuntawa da sake tsara rundunar sojojin Girka ta hannun gwamnatocin Georgios Theotokis a cikin 1900s, gami da tanadi don gayyatar aikin soja na ƙasashen waje zuwa ƙasar. Tuni a cikin 1907, gwamnatin Theotokis ta kusanci Faransanci tare da shawarar aikin sojan ruwan Faransa, don musayar tallafin Faransa ga ƙoƙarin Girka don tabbatar da rancen ƙasa da ƙasa. Duk da zuwan Admiral Ernest François Fournier tare da tawagar jami'ai, shawarwarin da aka gabatar na iyakance rundunar sojin ruwan Hellenic zuwa jiragen ruwa masu sauki, wadanda za su iya aiki ne kawai a matsayin mataimaki ga Babban Iko, da sauri ya tayar da adawa mai yawa. Haɗe tare da halin adawa na Biritaniya game da mamayewar Faransa na rawar da ta saba takawa a Girka, hakan ya nuna gazawar aikin. A shekara mai zuwa, an yi ƙoƙari don tabbatar da goyon bayan Jamus a maimakon haka. Jamus ta tabbatar da shirye-shiryen yin la'akari da halartar Girka a cikin Triple Alliance, amma karuwar tashin hankali a cikin Balkans bayan rikicin Bosnia
<unk>musamman batun Cretan ga Girka<unk>da kuma faduwar majalisar Theotokis a 1909 ya kawo ƙarshen waɗannan tattaunawar. Maimakon haka, Jamus ta fi mai da hankali kan zurfafa goyon bayanta ga Daular Ottoman.