How was Schlieffen Plan meant to work?

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How was the Schlieffen Plan meant to work?

        The Schlieffen plan was named after the chief of the German General, Alfred von Schlieffen from 1891 to 1905. In 1906, General Helmuth von Moltke had elected as the chief of staff. Under his leadership, the details of the Schlieffen Plan had been changed around, but with remaining its main purpose and features. The plan was supposed to work very smoothly and successfully with the new German’s thinking. They were locating most of their army in the front line between Germany and France and just leaving a small defensive line on the border in Russia. They thought the Russians were not strong enough and it would be easy to defend from their attacks and they would take a lot time for them to mobilize their army due to the difficult and high terrain in Russia and the amount of people they had in their army. Also, the Germans thought their army would be quick enough to mobilize back to the east front for the Russians after their easy quick victory on the west against France. They thought the Russian army would take at least 2 months to mobilize their army into Germany and Germany planned they would have enough time to march back to the eastern front after defeating France.

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        They were planning that they would locate one eighth of their elite army at the front line in Alsace Lorraine so they can held the French back as the remaining of the army would swiftly mobilize around Austria Hungary and attack from Belgium and straight into the northern part of France like a wing attack and takes control of the channel ports and forces the French to surrender within 40 to 50 days. So if the plan sticks with the plan, the attack would start off at Alsace Lorraine and attack smoothly around as they mobilize into Belgium and ...

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