Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets fraught with strategic failures and

fraught with strategic failures and heavy losses

He destabilized the Iron Chancellor's foreign policy by failing to renew the Reinsurance Treaty with Russia

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In the Mesopotamian desert during World War I

Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 Magnets fraught with strategic failures andDescription by Terence Zuber Paperback The existence of the Schlieffen plan has been one of the basic assumptions of twentieth century military history. It was the perfect example of the evils of German militarism: aggressive, mechanical, disdainful of politics and of public morality. The Great War began in August 1914 allegedly because the Schlieffen plan forced the German government to transform a Balkan quarrel into a World War by attacking France.