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2 giorni fa · Alfred von Schlieffen (Chief of the Imperial German General Staff) approved of Trotha's intentions in terms of a "racial struggle" and the need to "wipe out the entire nation or to drive them out of the country", but had doubts about his strategy, preferring their surrender.
5 giorni fa · His section was led by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a student of encirclement battles like Cannae, whose Schlieffen Plan proposed to pocket the French Army. For five years Hindenburg also taught tactics at the Kriegsakademie.
2 giorni fa · In 1914, German strategic thinking derived from the writings of Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) and Alfred von Schlieffen (28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913), who advocated maneuver, mass and envelopment to create the conditions for a decisive ...
26 mag 2024 · In 1906, German Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen devised a plan to avoid a prolonged two-front war against France and Russia. The Schlieffen Plan called for a rapid, sweeping offensive through Belgium and into northern France, with the goal of encircling and defeating the French army within six weeks.
26 mag 2024 · Germany‘s pre-war strategy centered on the "Schlieffen Plan," named after Chief of the General Staff Alfred von Schlieffen. Seeking a decisive victory over France to avoid a prolonged two-front war, Schlieffen called for a massive offensive of 1.6 million men to sweep through Belgium and envelop Paris, all within just 42 days.[^1 ...
5 giorni fa · The Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, envisaged a massive attack through the Low Countries into northern France (shown by the green arrows on the map), an advance that would persuade France to surrender within six weeks.
21 mag 2024 · In 1903 Moltke became quartermaster general; three years later he succeeded Alfred von Schlieffen as chief of the General Staff. He thus inherited Schlieffen’s plan for a war on two fronts, which envisaged only light German forces facing Russia on the east until France on the west had been defeated.
