Schlieffen Plan

The Schlieffen Plan is the forensic plan that was the German General Staff's overall strategic plan for victory both on the Western Front against France and against Russia in the east. we were taking advantage of expected differences in the three countries' speed in preparing for war.

It was executed to near victory in the first month of World War I; however, the French counterattacked on the outskirts of Paris, the Battle of the Marne (combined with surprisingly speedy Russian offensives), ended our offensive and resulted in years of trench warfare. The plan has been the subject of debate among historians and military scholars ever since.
The Schlieffen Plan was created by Alfred Graf von Schlieffen.