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Military Leaders: Schlieffen, Alfred von

July 2021

Schlieffen, Alfred von

Alfred von Schlieffen (1833-1913) was author of the Schlieffen plan which Germany used to begin its offensive during World War I.

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Strategy: The Indirect Approach by Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Call Number: 355.48 L712d 2012

Publication Date: 2012
The Dogma of the Battle of Annihilation by Jehuda L. Wallach
Call Number: 355.00943 W195d

Publication Date: 1986
Makers of Modern Strategy: From Machiavelli to the Nuclear Age by Peter Paret (Editor); Gordon A. Craig (Editor); Felix Gilbert (Editor)
Call Number: 355.02 M235 1986

Publication Date: 1986
An Application in the Principles of War: The Schlieffen Plan by James A. Goodin
Call Number: M-U 43122 G652a

Publication Date: 1984
The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth by Gerhard Ritter
Call Number: 943.08 R614s

Publication Date: 1958

Absolute Numbers: The Schlieffen Plan as a Critique of German Strategy in 1914 by Terence M. Holmes.
War in History 21, no. 2:193-213 April 2014.
Classical Blitzkrieg: The Untimely Modernity of Schlieffen's Cannae Programme by Terence M. Holmes.
The Journal of Military History 67, no. 3:745-771 July 2003.
Schlichting, Schlieffen, and the Prussian Theory of War in 1914 by Daniel J. Hughes.
The Journal of Military History 59, no. 2:257-277 April 1995.

The Schlieffen War Plan: What Impact did Logistics Contribute to the Plan's Failure? by Craig O. Petersen.
Quantico, VA, United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University, April 2008. 36 p.
An Infamous Legacy: Schlieffen's Military Theories Revisited by Antulio J. Echevarria II.
Army History 53:1-8 Summer-Fall 2001.
Operational Leadership: A Case of General Helmuth von Moltke (The Younger) by Barbara P. Morgan.
Newport, RI, Naval War College, May 2001. 26 p.
The Schlieffen Plan: Case History of the Relation of Military Strategy to National Security Policy by Forrest S. Holmes, Jr.
Carlisle Barracks, PA, U.S. Army War College, September 1972. 56 p.

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