"The Schlieffen Plan" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 May 2014 10:49 p.m. PST |
"The German, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian Empires, together with the French Republic, all entered World War I with plans for great offensives, and the United Kingdom quickly agreed to take part in the French offensive. But it is Germany's dramatic offensive in the West that attracts the greatest attention. It is often said that this was conducted according to something called the Schlieffen Plan, or that it should have been according to the Schlieffen Plan but wasn't. Germany's failure to knock France out of the war in the late summer of 1914 is often said to mark the failure of the Schlieffen Plan. The actual facts are somewhat different. This Web page very briefly sorts them out, in quite simplified form. It has few links to other Web pages because there are few with accurate information. If you want references to accurate sources, the place to look is in the notes and bibliography of The Plan That Broke the World…"
Full article here
link Hope you enjoy!. Amicalement
Armand |
| Porkmann | 04 May 2014 2:03 a.m. PST |
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| Cerdic | 04 May 2014 3:45 a.m. PST |
Interesting but bollox I suspect! The summary wonders why the Germans would ignore the Russians while they dealt with France, with no mention of the projected differences in the speed of mobilisation which was the whole essence of the plan. |
| Porkmann | 04 May 2014 7:20 a.m. PST |
Germany lost due to the economic aspect rather than on the battlefield. I suspect such finger pointing is pointless. |
| Cerdic | 04 May 2014 10:31 a.m. PST |
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| Yankees | 04 May 2014 11:36 a.m. PST |
Schlieffen plan was a bad plan. The Germans could have bottle up the French in Alsace Loraine with one army. The Germans would have whipped out the entire Russian army within two months taking them out of the war, and the Austrians would have removed Serbia, war is over. The British would not have entered the war, the French would attack Germany and try to get back the lost lands, but after a few hundred thousand casualties they would have been the aggressors and English are definately not entering the war. Germany might have been looked at as defender and the French as the aggressor. This is interesting |
| Tango01 | 04 May 2014 3:36 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed the article boys!. (smile). Amicalement
ARmand |
Ponder  | 04 May 2014 6:08 p.m. PST |
I had just bought the book, but not read it yet. I will post my thoughts after reading. Ponder on, JAS |
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dips his toe into the Russo-Japanese War.