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Plan 17 was the doctorine created and adopted by the French. It was a two-pronged frontal assault through Alsace & Loraine created on the belief that the German center would be weakened due to the Schlieffen Plan. |
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"In proportion as a defensive gave way to an offensive strategy, the attention paid to the Belgian frontier gradually gave way in favor of a progressive shift of gravity eastward toward the point where a French offensive could be launched to break through the Rhine... They could only get to Berlin by the shortest way." (GOA pg. 31-32) | ||
