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How many plans did Germany have besides the Schleiffen? If there was just one plan then it makes sense that Germany had been just itching to try this plan out for years and was just looking for an excuse to invade France again. Willy just wanted to live up to his predicessor who whooped France in 1870-71.
If you think about it, France really hasn't been too spectacular since Napoleon.
Kaiser Willy said that it wasn't the French he was worried about but those tenacious English.
France lost in 1870-71
France got clobbered during WW1 by the Germans. I'd like to know the casualty ratios of the French
and Germans who were directly in opposition to each other. In my opinion England carried WW1.
And France was destroyed in WW2 in a very short period.
Vietnam they faired no better. Of course the US got whooped pretty good by the Vietnamese too.
Hey, on the subject of strategies. Where would you place the English tactic of the "Rolling Barrage"? I think it was the one tactic that most broke the German lines, not giving them enough time get out of their bunkers to defend themselves properly.
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