Schlieffen plan

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 - Germany’s plan for WWI based on Count Alfred von Schlieffen 
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 - designed for Germany’s efficient, well-equipped, but outnumbered army
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 - neutralize western front by taking out France and then all resources devoted to Russia on the Eastern Front
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 - overestimated German army’s capabilities
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 - resistance of Belgian and British forces caused problems
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 - diverted forces from the western front because generals feared Russian attack
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 - seemed to succeed for a while and then Britain and France successfully counterattack
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 - this ended the Schlieffen Plan
 
 The failure of the swift attack against France led to trench warfare.