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02/08/12(Wed)17:27 No.4791732>>4791715
>At the outbreak of the First World War, the German army (consisting
in the West of seven field armies) carried out a modified version of
the Schlieffen Plan, designed to quickly attack France through neutral
Belgium before turning southwards to encircle the French army on the
German border.[10] The plan called for the right flank of the German
advance to converge on Paris, and initially the Germans were successful,
particularly in the Battle of the Frontiers (14–24 August). By 12
September, the French, with assistance from the British forces, halted
the German advance east of Paris at the First Battle of the Marne (5–12
September). The last days of this battle signified the end of mobile
warfare in the west.[10] The French offensive into Germany, launched on 7
August with the Battle of Mulhouse, had limited success.
In the
east, only one field army defended East Prussia, and when Russia
attacked in this region it diverted German forces intended for the
Western Front. Germany defeated Russia in a series of battles
collectively known as the First Battle of Tannenberg (17 August – 2
September), but this diversion aggravated problems of insufficient speed
of advance from rail-heads not foreseen by the German General Staff.
The Central Powers were denied a quick victory and forced to fight a war
on two fronts. The German army had fought its way into a good defensive
position inside France and had permanently incapacitated 230,000 more
French and British troops than it had lost itself. Despite this,
communications problems and questionable command decisions cost Germany
the chance of early victory.
I'll just leave it here. and to avoid such things in future learn history first, and only then say something about it pls. |
