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Hace 5 días · Alfred Graf von Schlieffen was chief of the German chief staff in the early 20th Century. Schlieffen proposed this plan in 1905, in the wake of Japan's victory over Russia. The idea was to avoid a two-front war by knocking one enemy out before the other could fully prepare.
Hace 3 días · His section was led by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a student of encirclement battles like Cannae, whose Schlieffen Plan proposed to pocket the French Army. For five years Hindenburg also taught tactics at the Kriegsakademie.
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Hace 16 horas · The German High Command, influenced by the ideas of strategists like Alfred von Schlieffen, further developed these tactics. Schlieffen’s emphasis on speed and encirclement laid the groundwork for what would become synonymous with blitzkrieg.
Hace 1 día · In 1914, German strategic thinking derived from the writings of Carl von Clausewitz (1 June 1780 – 16 November 1831), Helmuth von Moltke the Elder (26 October 1800 – 24 April 1891) and Alfred von Schlieffen (28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913), who advocated maneuver, mass and envelopment to create the conditions for a decisive ...
Hace 1 día · Alfred von Schlieffen (Chief of the Imperial German General Staff) approved of Trotha's intentions in terms of a "racial struggle" and the need to "wipe out the entire nation or to drive them out of the country", but had doubts about his strategy, preferring their surrender.
12 de may. de 2024 · 28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913. Effete, from a titled Prussian family, Alfred Schlieffen was austere, aloof, taciturn, profoundly religious and well known for cruel sarcasm with officers showing unsatisfactory effort. Schlieffen had no time for business that wasn't army. "He was a profoundly religious man.
Hace 1 día · And, in Holger Afflerbach's study of Erich von Falkenhayn, we have seen a major re-evaluation of the part played in promoting conflict by one of the key military figures of this period. (2) It is this historiographical context - viz. a growing and vibrant revitalisation of military history - which provides the backdrop to Annika Mombauer's new monograph on Helmuth von Moltke, the younger.
