The Schlieffen Plan (German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) is a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence...

1891 to 1906. His name lived on in the 1905–06 "Schlieffen Plan", then Aufmarsch I, a deployment plan and operational guide for a decisive initial offensive...

counter the French offensive of Plan XVII. In 2014, Terry Holmes wrote, Moltke followed the trajectory of the Schlieffen plan [sic], but only up to the point...

plan Project plan Site plan The Schlieffen Plan The Five-Year Plan system in the former Soviet Union The Marshall Plan Automated planning Critical path...

plans (of varying detail) even for very unlikely hypothetical scenarios. Plan XVII and the Schlieffen Plan are examples of World War I military plans...

The German actions had been based on the Schlieffen Plan. Von Schlieffen himself had spotted a flaw in his plan but had not suggested a solution. He saw...

trajectory of the Schlieffen plan, but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan to proceed...

German Schlieffen Plan is a notable example of the cult of the offensive. Supported by offensively-minded officers such as Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth...

frontiers with Germany. To evade the fortified frontier with France, Schlieffen devised a plan that by 1898–99 envisioned German forces rapidly passing between...

strategic masterpiece and was influential in the development of the Schlieffen Plan in the late 19th century. Napoleon himself wrote: four months of marching...

strategists had to adapt to the new strategic situation and developed the Schlieffen Plan. A series of military operations, that were to counteract being surrounded...

did not plan to mobilize for war with Russia whilst assuming that France would not come to her ally's aid, or vice versa. The Schlieffen Plan therefore...

The Schlieffen family (or Schliefen) is the name of an old German noble family from Pomerania. The family, branches of which still exist today, originates...

simultaneously, and marked the collision of the German and French war plans, the Schlieffen Plan and Plan XVII, respectively. Battle of Mülhausen The Battle of Mülhausen...

compromising situation the Germans developed a strategy known as the Schlieffen Plan. The Plan proposed that if German troops could invade France through Belgium...

of the conflict. The Imperial German war council had initiated the Schlieffen Plan which involved multiple armies flooding through the borders of Belgium...

weeks and then turn its attention to Russia. As envisioned by the Schlieffen Plan (revised by Helmuth von Moltke), the Germans embarked on a rapid, circular...

respectively) and were directly involved in the implementation of the Schlieffen Plan. After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Rupprecht took command...

titled Aufmarsch II West, it is better known as the Schlieffen Plan after its creator, Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff from 1891 to...

London of 1839, which had been signed by Prussia. However, the German Schlieffen Plan required that German armed forces advance through Belgium (thus violating...

being at the forefront of Germany's concerns as proven through the Schlieffen Plan, Wilhelm II was far more ambitious. Colonial policies officially became...

in the west and one in the east, executed a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, bypassing French defenses along the common border by moving quickly...

was not possible. It was evident that both the French Plan XVII and the German Schlieffen Plan had failed. Both sides then proceeded to attempt to outmanoeuvre...

Army's Great General Staff, where he oversaw the development of the Schlieffen Plan. Despite being temporarily removed from the Great General Staff for...

Alsace-Lorraine, already annexed since 1871, was a major part of the Schlieffen Plan and Germany's war aims. The high plateau dominated the French interior...

beginning of the war. For example, the navy did not even know about the Schlieffen Plan, an initial attack on France through Belgium. Upon mobilizing in 1914...

of the German First Army. According to the Moltke revisions of the Schlieffen Plan, the First Army was part of the strong right wing and positioned on...

his successor, Alfred von Schlieffen, who planned quickly to defeat France by sweeping through Belgium (the Schlieffen Plan) in response to the 1893 Franco-Russian...

Schlieffen and his successor Helmuth von Moltke the Younger drew up and continually refined the Schlieffen Plan to meet this eventuality. The Plan committed...

it could fight the Germans in France. Germany planned to apply the Schlieffen plan. The Schlieffen plan was to attack France first since Russia would...