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For Germany, delaying its mobilization meant it was squandering a major battlefield advantage and undermining its war plan. For France, whose mobilization was three to seven days behind Germany's, delay meant it fell even further behind and its peril was magnified proportionally. Finally, the process of mobilization, once started, was impossible to stop until it had run its course. To stop a mobilization in mid-stride would have produced chaos, with reservists and their units stranded, and would have left that country's forces in disarray.
In fact, no military staff had a way of stopping a mobilization in mid-stride. They couldn't have done it even if they had wanted to. By the first week of August, millions of men were arriving on the front lines. War had been declared. The fuse ignited at Sarajevo, just 33 days ago, had reached its powder keg. Joseph V. Micallef is a military historian, bestselling author, keynote speaker, syndicated columnist and commentator on international politics and the future.
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Learn More: Imperial Rivalry—— The French plan, endorsed by commander Joseph Joffre, called for an all-out attack into Germany to regain the lost territories of Alsace-Lorraine, avenging the humiliating defeat of , and redeeming French honor. An attack of the south would ensure what the German planners hoped for: that their sweeping movement would capture even more French troops. In practice, however, both plans broke down in disaster.
On August 4, , German troops invaded Belgium. They moved through Belgium, then plunged into France. By early September, they had reached the Marne River, some 20 miles from Paris. It is said that German advance troops could see the Eiffel Tower in the distance. The German advance, however, had been slowed, with the Schlieffen Plan running behind schedule at crucial moments. The German advance had been hampered by fiercer Belgian resistance than had been anticipated—as well as by the destruction of railroads and other strategic assets by the Belgians or the French—and was also slowed by German anxieties by the fear of snipers.
Nonetheless, there were remarkable and celebrated successes that gave a sense of optimism about enacting the Schlieffen Plan. On August 7, the main citadel of Liege, a key strategic point that was supposed to hold up the German advance, was captured.
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