The Spectator Australia7d
The task ahead
Australia went to war. By the end of 1914, the German Schlieffen Plan had failed and for the next four years, aside from two ...
BBC1y
Causes of World War One
This was called The Schlieffen Plan. The Schlieffen plan made several assumptions: There would be minimal resistance from Belgium. Russia would take six weeks to mobilise their army. The UK would ...
StrategyPage7mon
Book Review: The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan
Prof. Showalter and his collaborators look at a hitherto neglected aspect of German war making in 1914, reconnaissance, and find it wanting. They examine the doctrinal and structural flaws that ...
GZERO on MSN6mon
Now & Then: The Miracle on the Marne
5 as the Germans rebuffed the strike and swept across Belgium and Luxembourg (the infamous Schlieffen Plan). They bottled up ...