The plan for this war was called the Schlieffen Plan, and it was drawn up for a secure victory of German tacticians against Russia and France. Count von Schlieffen is the man who came up with this Plan, and he constructed it by studying Russia’s military performance in its war with Japan in 1905. His Plan involved some of the German troops entering France’s lightly-guarded northern borders, but most of the troops would enter through the small nations of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands instead. The Two Front War is well-known as one of the greatest watersheds of the 20th century geopolitical history. This War led to the fall of four great dynasties, destabilization of European society, and it also laid the grounds…show more content… One weakness was that Russia’s actions determined when the Germans would begin their attack on France whether they were ready or not. Another was it assumed Russia needed six weeks to mobilise. One more weakness was that it assumed Germany would defeat France in less than six weeks. The attack in August 1914 nearly succeeded and was only defeated by the first Battle of the Marne. The withdrawal of German troops in response to a higher than expected threat on the Russian front, meant that the Germans didn’t have the military clout that Schlieffen had built in his original Plan. The Plan was nearly succeeded, but it was one that needed to succeed 100% or it wouldn’t succeed at all. Schlieffen’s speedy attack and quick defeat on France never happened- which led to the era in trench warfare, and the trench warfare linked up to World War I. The Plan was a failure, even though it nearly succeeded, because it didn’t reach its intended effect. It’s one victory condition was that it succeeded 100%. If any part of the Plan didn’t work out perfectly and something went wrong with one part, it caused the entire Plan to fall out of place and not succeed completely. The Schlieffen Plan did end up changing the war. Because of the Plan’s failure to succeed, it ushered in the era of trench warfare. The trench warfare was what linked up to World War
