Explain how the Schlieffen plan was meant to work?

main objective of the Schlieffen plan was to defeat France as quickly as possible because the Germans thought that once the French was defeated Britain and Russia would be unwilling to carry on fighting.  Schlieffen calculated that it would take 6 weeks for the Russian army to be ready to attack Germany so it was vital to make the French army surrender before Russia was ready to use all its forces. The first part of the plan was to go along the coast of neutral Belgium then cut in and invade France from behind. They planned to do this because France wouldn’t have expected Germany to attack from behind. Schlieffen wanted 90% of the army to invade France and the other 10% to defend the eastern front from the expected Russian attack because they didn’t want the Russians to invade Germany because Russia has got a powerful army and they don’t want a war on both sides and if there was a war on the eastern and western front Germany will lose loads of lives, they will lose the war and they have to find more troops to fight in the western and eastern fronts. The second part of the plan was to send all the troops left to the eastern front to fight the Russians so he could avoid fighting on two fronts the western and eastern front. He wanted to defeat the Russians because he thought that if he defeats Russia and France and the British would be unwilling to fight the Germans In conclusion, the Schlieffen plan was meant to work in two ways. The first way of the plan was to defeat France as quickly as possible so they concentrate on defeating Russia aswell. The second way was to send all the troops from France to the eastern front to support the troops that have been there for 6 weeks to help to defeat Russia.