Iraq more than Bush bargained for War has a dynamism of its own that captures those who launch it and drives them where they never wanted to go From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: February 27, 2004| Author: Andrew Greeley | Copyright 2004 Chicago Sun-Times. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

In 1914 the German General Staff had a perfect plan for winning a war with France. It was called the Schlieffen plan. It forecast that Germany could mobilize its entire reserve army on the efficient national railway system, move through Belgium and capture Paris in 34 days. Indeed, it specified where the army should be on the way to Paris at each day of the month following mobilization. Schlieffen and his successors on the General Staff assumed that modern wars would be fought in one big batt...

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