He was replaced by Helmut von Moltke (the younger). The changes he made to the plan is for them not to invade Netherlands but to only invade Belgium. Just looking at the numbers of men objectively, it seems unsure that there were enough numbers of german troops to attain and achieve the encirclement of Paris and to take the remaining french troops southwards. Not only that there weren’t the right amount of men initially, but casualties couldn’t be properly replaced. The regular german army was well equipped, but the replacement troops weren’t. They were not even trained with the new types of equipment. Germans misinterpreted on how things would be in the east. They dismissed Russia as a strong enemy and did not really think on how they would fight the Russians since they lost to japan in the Russo-Japanese war. The plan in 1914 ignored how Russia had modernized. Unfortunately, after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated things did not go as planned. One of the german troop was just ready to give up as there were many adjustments to the plan. He said that not most of it went on how they
He was replaced by Helmut von Moltke (the younger). The changes he made to the plan is for them not to invade Netherlands but to only invade Belgium. Just looking at the numbers of men objectively, it seems unsure that there were enough numbers of german troops to attain and achieve the encirclement of Paris and to take the remaining french troops southwards. Not only that there weren’t the right amount of men initially, but casualties couldn’t be properly replaced. The regular german army was well equipped, but the replacement troops weren’t. They were not even trained with the new types of equipment. Germans misinterpreted on how things would be in the east. They dismissed Russia as a strong enemy and did not really think on how they would fight the Russians since they lost to japan in the Russo-Japanese war. The plan in 1914 ignored how Russia had modernized. Unfortunately, after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated things did not go as planned. One of the german troop was just ready to give up as there were many adjustments to the plan. He said that not most of it went on how they