@SuperbattleshipYamato hard to argue against any of this really. The IJN was so far gone by this point in the war that there’s not really much they could have done to salvage their situation one way or another. The bit about the allies not having many LSTs in general is something I never knew before though.
1914 The Race To The Sea
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Had the Germans been able to finish off the Belgian, French and British units in western Belgium and capture the Channel Ports of Nieuport, Dunkirk and Calais would the war have played out different?
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Nope.
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If they kept the Schlieffen Plan like it was designed and Von Moltke had not reduced the right wing, yes it would have worked. The timetables had to be met as well and they mostly were.
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Some of the German General staff felt the need to counterattack the French who had entered German territory. Whereas the Schlieffen Plan called for allowing French Armies to advance into Germany. Allowing the German Right Wing to make the knock out punch on Paris.
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Somebodies dying words were to “Keep the right flank strong”. Can’t remember who…
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Somebodies dying words were to “Keep the right flank strong”. Can’t remember who…
That would be Count Schlieffen himself.
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yep
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@ABWorsham:
Had the Germans been able to finish off the Belgian, French and British units in western Belgium and capture the Channel Ports of Nieuport, Dunkirk and Calais would the war have played out different?
“The Race to the Sea” is a bit of a misnomer because the opposing forces weren’t actually trying to get to the sea; they were trying to outflank each other. This kept failing because, each time one side tried to make a flanking move to the north, it collided against an enemy force trying to do the same thing. Had one side actually succeeded in outflanking the other, the flanked force could potentially have been destroyed or compelled to pull back its line (as happened at the First Battle of the Marne). Instead, they simply ran out of ground when they got to the English Channel, where no further flanking was possible.
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