JIM RISWOLD
I SEE BELGIUM, I SEE THE GERMAN ARMY ADVANCE
The Schlieffen plan was Germany’s big plan for winning World War One.
It was concocted by the German chief of staff, Count Alfred von Schlieffen, in
1904 as an overall plan for victory should Germany ever find itself fighting a war
on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east.
World War One became that war.
It planned for German troops to quickly advance through Luxembourg, the
Netherlands and Belgium with disregard of these countries’ neutrality, and then
advance through northern France around the rear of the main French armies.
Having won a quick and great battle of encirclement, German forces would then
be rushed off by rail to the east to defeat the Russians.
It failed.
Wars seldom go according to plan.
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2011 color digital print 24 x 43 inches
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