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**pkopwqzsdcvbn** · 02-13-2008, 02:42 AM

Originally posted by Andemagne

german high command doesn't believe or estimate, they count.
trenches came into play AFTER the Schliefen Plan had failed, and Schliefen Plan failed because Moltke the B@st@rd moved "an armycorps and a half" from western front to eastern front. And I think this Schlieffen-Plan was largely influenced by the successes in 1870. It didn´t account for modern defensive technologies (like the machinegun) but instead counted on the same rapid successes like in the war in 1870 in defeating the french army.
IMHO this lets it appear questionable if this plan had worked even if Russia hadn´t mobilised so fast (and therefore germany was forced to fight a 2 fronts war).

02-13-2008, 02:42 AM	#26
pkopwqzsdcvbn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 395 Senior Member	Originally posted by Andemagne german high command doesn't believe or estimate, they count. trenches came into play AFTER the Schliefen Plan had failed, and Schliefen Plan failed because Moltke the B@st@rd moved "an armycorps and a half" from western front to eastern front. And I think this Schlieffen-Plan was largely influenced by the successes in 1870. It didn´t account for modern defensive technologies (like the machinegun) but instead counted on the same rapid successes like in the war in 1870 in defeating the french army. IMHO this lets it appear questionable if this plan had worked even if Russia hadn´t mobilised so fast (and therefore germany was forced to fight a 2 fronts war).
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