While reading Barbara Tuchman's classic on the first days of the Great War, The Guns of August, I came across mention of a plan that Germany had archived in the year of 1913 by the OHL regarding a German offensive focusing on the Russian behemoth rather than its smaller but nimbler French counterpart, which intrigued me deeply.
However, after copious amounts of research and searching, I cannot find any definitive or comprehensive compilation of what this plan may have looked like in its authentic form (e.g. army positions, offensive goals, etc.) and thus have been forced, albeit not reluctantly, to turn to AH.com.
Is there any source in which the original form, or at least a form that most closely resembles it, of the Eastern War Plan of the German armies can be found, can be found, and if so, where? If there is not, I encourage the imaginative members of AH.com to use their speculative minds to conceive the most probable plan of action.
I, myself, imagined a mirrored Schlieffen Plan (following a securing of Poland and thus by extension a securing of East Prussia, a massive offensive along the Baltic coast aimed at forcing the destabilization, if not capitulation, of the Russian Empire), although I quickly dismissed it as logistically and strategically improbable.
I hope that you will be beneficiary of better luck than I in developing a largely unheard of war plan for one of the most powerful nations in Europe.
Thank you in advance,
CB
However, after copious amounts of research and searching, I cannot find any definitive or comprehensive compilation of what this plan may have looked like in its authentic form (e.g. army positions, offensive goals, etc.) and thus have been forced, albeit not reluctantly, to turn to AH.com.
Is there any source in which the original form, or at least a form that most closely resembles it, of the Eastern War Plan of the German armies can be found, can be found, and if so, where? If there is not, I encourage the imaginative members of AH.com to use their speculative minds to conceive the most probable plan of action.
I, myself, imagined a mirrored Schlieffen Plan (following a securing of Poland and thus by extension a securing of East Prussia, a massive offensive along the Baltic coast aimed at forcing the destabilization, if not capitulation, of the Russian Empire), although I quickly dismissed it as logistically and strategically improbable.
I hope that you will be beneficiary of better luck than I in developing a largely unheard of war plan for one of the most powerful nations in Europe.
Thank you in advance,
CB