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	World War I - MSN Encarta
		In designing their war plans, the European countries factored in the time it would take for other countries to mobilize, whether the country was friendly or hostile.
		The Schlieffen Plan called for the strong right wing of the German forces to swing through Belgium, move southward to engulf Paris, the French capital, and force the French to surrender within six weeks.
		In spite of the implications of the Schlieffen Plan, its details remained virtually unknown outside the cloisters of the German general staff.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569981_3/World_War_I.html (1690 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Planning of the War
		The chief aim of Plan XVII, devised by Ferdinand Foch in the wake of the humiliation of the Franco-Prussian War, and taken up by French Commander-in-Chief Joseph Joffre in 1913, was the recapture of the territory of Alsace and Lorraine.
		Plan B (for Balkans) detailed the requirement for six Austro-Hungarian armies in the field, three to invade Serbia, with a further three guarding the Russian border to dissuade an attack from that quarter.
		Plan R (for Russia) essentially revised Plan B, allowing for a greater volume of troops to guard against Russian assistance for the Serbs in the south, whilst assuming German activity in the north.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/plans.htm (2083 words)

	The Schlieffen plan
		The Schlieffen plan was based on a theory that if Germany went to war, it would be attacked from two sides, France and Russia.
		Schlieffen thought that if France were defeated, Russia and Britain would be unwilling to carry on.
		Schlieffen also took in to consideration the fact that the French had a lot of defence (I.e posts and bunkers) on the borders of Germany.
	www.allfreeessays.net /student/The_Schlieffen_plan.html (259 words)

	World War I, The Schlieffen Plan
		His work, which shows a wide acquaintance with war literature, purports to contain portions of the Schlieffen plan of which the public had not yet heard, and which fully justify the reproach that Moltke changed it for the worse, much the worse, but not in the way hitherto imagined.
		It emerges incidentally that the Schlieffen plan was worked out for war on the Western front only; for when drawn up, Russia was still very weak as a result of the Manchurian War.
		This was all changed in the deployment plan of the mobilization year 1908-09, by which Liege was to be captured by a coup de main, without artillery preparation, during the mobilization....
	net.lib.byu.edu /~rdh7/wwi/1914m/schlieffen.html (806 words)

	The Schlieffen Plan
		Under the guidance of Graf Alfred von Schlieffen the plan had been composed with traditional Prussian thoroughness and every aspect for achieving a decisive, quick military decision on the Western Front was considered in 12 weeks.
		Before considering the plan in detail, it would be wise to consider why the Germans would hinge the whole fortune of war on one master plan which was supposed to win the war within 12 weeks.
		Graf von Schlieffen was succeded by Graf Von Moltke, the Younger in 1906.
	www.tulipacademy.org /gew/tsp.htm (1510 words)

	Schlieffen, Alfred, Graf von - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to the plan, Germany could solve the problem of war on two fronts by first defeating France in a lightning campaign and then throwing its full weight against Russia.
		The plan called for a flanking movement by an overwhelmingly strong right (i.e., northern) wing, which was to advance through Belgium and Holland and, in an enveloping move, compel the bulk of the French forces either to fight with their backs to the frontier fortresses or to flee into Switzerland.
		When World War I broke out in 1914 the Schlieffen plan was employed in a modified form, but a number of factors—including Russian military strength, German lack of mobility, effective French delaying action, and the reluctance of Schlieffen's successor, H. von Moltke, to weaken his eastern front—led to its failure.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Schlieff.asp (333 words)

	Schlieffen Plan
		Alfred von Schlieffen, German Army Chief of Staff, was given instructions to devise a strategy that would be able to counter a joint attack.
		Schlieffen's plan involved using 90% of Germany's armed forces to attack France.
		When Helmuth von Moltke replaced Alfred von Schlieffen as German Army Chief of Staff in 1906, he modified the plan by proposing that Holland was not invaded.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWschlieffenP.htm (1315 words)

	Alfred Schlieffen 1833-1913
		Al was a soldier and developed a war strategy, the Schlieffen Plan.
		Progressing in his career, Alfred became officer and, in 1891, the person in charge of the general staff.
		However, after making some major amendments, the Germans did use a modified version of the plan in World War I. Of course, the Germans lost that war and some think they could have won if they had applied the unaltered original Schlieffen Plan.
	www.emersonkent.com /history_notes/alfred_schlieffen.htm (325 words)

	Politics/maginot myths
		Thus Moltke had sufficient troops for the Schlieffen plan with enough to attack with the left wing in central France.
		This was a violation of Schlieffen's plan which did envision a French attack in central France (in order to recover Alsace-Lorraine) but planned to give ground before it thus drawing French forces away from Paris and the right wing.
		Since the Germans could not have switched the focus of their attack from Belgium to the Ardennes, I assume that the plans captured were those of the Ardennes attack, not the WWII version of the Schleiffen plan first conceived.
	www.tafkac.org /politics/maginot_myths.html (1829 words)

	Der Schlieffen-Plan
		Der 1833 geborene Alfred Graf von Schlieffen war von 1891 bis 1905 Chef des Generalstabs der Armee.
		Kurz vor seinem Ruhestand legte er eine Denkschrift für einen deutschen Zweifrontenkrieg gegen Rußland und Frankreich vor: Während der für die russische Mobilmachung erforderlichen Zeit sollten zunächst Frankreich niedergeworfen und anschließend die Truppen von der Westfront an die Ostfront verlegt werden.
		Dieser Schlieffen-Plan verdichtete sich vor 1914 zu einem Dogma und wurde von Schlieffens Amtsnachfolger, Helmuth Graf von Moltke, überarbeitet.
	www.hdg.de /lemo/html/wk1/kriegsverlauf/schlieff (169 words)

	Excerpt: The German Schlieffen Plan of 1914
		He sought to achieve modern Cannaes in Vernichtungskriege, or “wars of annihilation.” The aim was to avoid frontal attacks by deep concentric encircling movements around enemy flanks with infantry armies in order to drive enemy forces into pockets where they either had to surrender or be annihilated....
		Of the seventy-two German divisions expected to be available, fifty-three were to be allocated to the wheeling movement, ten to form a pivot facing Verdun, and only nine to be held on the left, or eastern, wing along the French frontier.
		Schlieffen’s plan was not a true Cannae, in that he prescribed a turn around just one flank.
	bevinalexander.com /excerpts/world-war-i/german-schlieffen-plan-1914.htm (478 words)

	The Schlieffen Plan
		"The best laid plans of mice and men [often go astray]." One can only marvel at the truth in this simple statement.
		"The outbreak of war in 1914 is the most tragic example of a government's helpless dependence on the planning of strategists that history has ever seen." The importance of the time-table robbed Germany of freedom to maneuver diplomatically.
		General von Kluck, commander of the German 1st Army said it best: "The reason that transcends all others was extraordinary and peculiar aptitude of the French soldier to recover quickly.
	members.fortunecity.se /mikaelxii/ww1/Germany/Scliefen.htm (1440 words)

	Blast Effects
		Although some factors mitigate against firestorms, such as insufficient fuel (e.g., lack of buildings, etc. to burn) and poor ignition conditions especially due to weather (e.g., rain or fog), firestorms, in many cases, would be the chief killer in an urban environment.
		Ominously at the highest levels of command the full range of effects from firestorms were not even used in planning in the U.S. nuclear war plan as late as 1991.
		Firestorms and radioactive fallout however are apt to figure more prominently in war plans when nuclear weapon arsenals are reduced, and there is an effort to get greater lethality out of fewer weapons.
	www.nukefix.org /weapon.html (9526 words)

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