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::::::The big risk was war with Great Britain, which was a more powerful adversary than France. So while Germans focused on France as their main enemy, the only way to defeat them relied on risking a much wider war with Great Britain, which would throw all military planning in the trash. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 00:17, 23 May 2017 (EDT)
::::::The big risk was war with Great Britain, which was a more powerful adversary than France. So while Germans focused on France as their main enemy, the only way to defeat them relied on risking a much wider war with Great Britain, which would throw all military planning in the trash. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 00:17, 23 May 2017 (EDT)
:::::::By comparison, the Schleiffen plan relied on presenting the world with a ''fait accompli'', such as (1) Hitler did when he re-occupied the Rhineland and Anschluss, (2) Putin did in recognition Abkazia and annexation of Crimea,or (3) the Islamic State did in the occupation of Mosul. The gamble is, after the fact, nobody is willing to go to war to undo it. This isn't really the way to conduct [[foreign policy]], especially when you advertise and train for it for 20 years, and get most people at home and abroad accepting it.
::::::::By extension, we see China working to do the samething by building artificial reefs in the Spratly Islands. They home some day to present the world with a ''fait accompli'' over what is now neutral disputed territory. [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|''Deep Six the Deep State!'']]</sup> 00:29, 23 May 2017 (EDT)