"... Germany
could not win a normal two-front war, it could not wait and see Russia
grow stronger, it could not risk the threat of American intervention.
The
only way out of Germany’s mortal dilemma was developed in 1904 by Count
von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff. His daring plan
called for German forces to avoid France’s fortress belt on the Meuse,
break through Belgium’s powerful forts, then race southwest in a giant
turning movement that would envelop France’s armies along the Marne
River and Vosges mountains.
Germany
had to strike before full Russian mobilization got under way. Its only
hope was to quickly defeat Russia’s western armies, then transfer its
troops to the western front against France, which was mobilizing to
invade southern Germany and retake Alsace-Lorraine.
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