Chapter 5

Secondly, there was the issue with the German Army General Staff, the failure of the Schlieffen Plan which doomed the entire situation. Although this plan was extremely excellent, detailed, and flawless, with the benefit of hindsight, it revealed many flaws. In Qing Ying's view, if Germany had not taken such a risky offensive in the Western Front but instead focused on defending the Alsace and Lorraine regions bordering France, and concentrated its main forces on the Eastern Front to attack the Russians, it would have been the best strategy for the German Army in World War I!

Western Europe is geographically narrow, and it wouldn't take much effort to construct an impregnable defense line with machine guns, trenches, and barbed wire to block the French offensive. The Eastern Front, on the other hand, is ten times larger than the Western Front, and the Russians, even if they