Plan of campaign. (Letters).(Brief Article)

From: History Today | Date: November 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

I read with great interest Terence Zuber's article The Schlieffen Plan, Fact or Fantasy? (September 2002). His thesis was that the German High Command never intended a pre-emptive strike through Belgium with a deep penetration of France in the first phase of the war, but only a counter-attack against the flank of any French attack on them. This is based on records of exercises carried out by Schlieffen and his staff up to 1906, which show a number of different stratagems being tried out (including dealing with Russia first), all of an essentially reactive nature.

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