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Schlieffen

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Schlieffen
Alfred , Count von Schlieffen. 1833--1913, German field marshal, who devised the Schlieffen Plan (1905): it was intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries. In a modified form, it was unsuccessfully employed in World War I (1914)


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of Wurzburg, Germany) as Inventing the Schlieffen Plan (2002 Oxford University Press), which argues that there never was such a plan.
The Moltke myth; Prussian war planning, 1857-1871 by Reference & Research Book News
The initial version of Case Yellow submitted by the General Staff in late 1939 amounted to nothing more than an uninspired recycling of the Schlieffen Plan, embodying the letter of the plan that Germany went to war with in 1914 even as it was bereft of its spirit.
Case Yellow and the modern campaign planner by Hanley, Brian J. / Joint Force Quarterly
In an insightful discussion, he makes direct connections between German brutalities in Africa (against the Hereros, for example) and aggressive, social Darwinist modes of thought that produced the Schlieffen Plan and other indications of the increasing European propensity to resort to violence.
Bloody Germany: Berghahn's view of twentieth-century state violence by Tooley, Hunt / Independent Review
 
 
 
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