5 as the Germans rebuffed the strike and swept across Belgium and Luxembourg (the infamous Schlieffen Plan). They bottled up ...

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 ...

Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to conquer France entailed a wheeling movement of the northern wing of its armies through central Belgium to enter France near Lille. It would turn west near the ...

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 ...