German commander Alfred Graf von Schlieffen developed a plan against France and Russia that would have a profound effect on World War I.

Installment #51: On January 4, 1913, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, the architect of Germany’s plan of attack on France, died in bed of natural causes at the age of 79—thus missing, by just 19 ...

From the Schlieffen Plan to the Versailles Treaty, a global history of the entire conflict.

What came to be known as the Von Schlieffen plan went far beyond an operational concept. The political execution of it would virtually ensure a general European war because it called for the ...

A translation of a leading German historian's study of the origins and significance of the Schlieffen Plan (German edition noted here October 1957).

But Schlieffen’s plan deliberately called for a weak left flank as a way to lure the French army into Germany territory (for eventual envelopment).

The Schlieffen plan never really addressed that fact, but when Germany crossed the Belgian frontier the British declared war.

But after relations between Russia and Germany soured, and as Russian troops scrambled along the Austrian border, Germany believed it had no choice to but to roll out its Schlieffen Plan — a ...

Rather than repeating the World War One Schlieffen Plan, the Germans in 1940 advanced with their main thrust through the Ardennes Forest, in order to smash the vulnerable flank of the Allies.

The First Battle of the Marne marked the end of the German sweep into France and the beginning of the trench warfare that was to characterise World War One. Germany's grand Schlieffen Plan to ...