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Hace 4 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 6 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 1 día · 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 2 días · 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.
Hace 1 día · Recently I read The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark.It’s a fantastic history of the events leading up to World War I, and I highly recommend it, I think I spent just as much time looking people’s names up in the index and searching Wikipedia for events that aren’t covered in significant background in this book as I did actually reading it.
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.
