13 März 1914 Jahr - The War During 1914

Beschreibung:

All the major powers had war plans designed for quick victories but no plans for a long, drawn-out stalemate. The German Schlieffen Plan—named after Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a noted military strategist—was designed to avoid a long, costly war on two fronts. It called for the German left flank to hold the French army on the Rhine River. The right flank was to sweep through Belgium and northern France toward Paris, the French capital. After defeating France, the Germans then planned to quickly move these troops by rail to the east to defeat Russia.

The French had agreed to respect Belgian neutrality. Therefore they could not go through Belgium to attack Germany. Instead they intended to concentrate their troops on the center and right flanks. They then planned to strike a blow against the Rhine front.