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Background

Adopted by General Staff in 1913

Intended for war aginst the Germans

More than a match

for couterpart

Metz-Thionville fortresses

Modifications

Joseph Joffre

lacklustre, 1914

Troops

War Plan

1. Capture Alsace and

Lorraine (southern wing)

2. Advance into Germany through

Ardennes forests (northern wing)

3. Or move into Luxembourg

and Belgium (north-east)

Expectations

size

reserve

Schieffen Plan

Time

Wk's

Thrown on the defensive

Quotes

"Extensive use of the belief in the mystical elan vital"

"Scheme of mobilization and concentration"

Larger Understanding

Miscalculations/ Planning

Undoing

Affects on French

Essential Question

Attacked

Defeat

Plan XVII

Actual activety

German Invastion (B)

German Invasion

Occupied since 1871

Alsace

Lorraine

Attack A&L

Repelled

Advantage of SP

How does strategy both benefit and destroy us?

Ex: German

Ex: French

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