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There was a group of senior people who had been trained by Schlieffen and worshipped him.
::IOW, the Schlieffen Plan was not a dusty file folder lying at the bottom of a file cabinet, as some try to make it in the post-1945 pacifist era. It was an "active contingincy plan", much like any schoolchild can tell you what Mutual Assured Destruction is.
::IOW, the Schlieffen Plan was not a dusty file folder lying at the bottom of a file cabinet, as some try to make it in the post-1945 pacifist era. It was an "active contingincy plan", much like any schoolchild can tell you what Mutual Assured Destruction is.
::It's key elements were violating Belgian neutrality, risking war with Great Britain, and fast mobilization to the front. But such was the level of paranoid thinking common among soldiers and citizens, and deemed an acceptable risk in the interest of national security. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Lock Up The Coup Plotters!'']]</sup> 20:15, 20 May 2017 (EDT)
::It's key elements were violating Belgian neutrality, risking war with Great Britain, and fast mobilization to the front. But such was the level of paranoid thinking common among soldiers and citizens, and deemed an acceptable risk in the interest of national security. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Lock Up The Coup Plotters!'']]</sup> 20:15, 20 May 2017 (EDT)
:::There was a group of senior people, including Ludendorff and Groener, who had been trained by Schlieffen and worshipped him. Moltke was never convinced that the plan would work. His view was that something had to be done about the Russians before they overtook Germany. Striking first at France and then at Russia was a compromise, at least in terms of internal General Staff politics. [[User:PeterKa|PeterKa]] ([[User talk:PeterKa|talk]]) 23:15, 20 May 2017 (EDT)