Cyril Falls, "The Great War"

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of
her quick acting. The Kaiser agreed to the "Schlieffen Plan", which said
that Germany has to knock out France first to avoid a two front war so
that the bigger strength of the Entente would be compensated.

The numbers at the beginning of the war were:

Russia 114 divisions

Germany 87 divisions

French 62 divisions

Austria 49 divisions

Britain 6 divisions (got bigger during the war, from her
colonies)

Chapter III The Clash in the West:

The Germans took the initiative during the beginning of the war. They
followed with all their patriotism the "Schlieffen Plan". It said the
Germany has to take down France in about six weeks so that a two fron war
could be avoided. To accomplish that Germany has to strike through
Belgium to avoid the big fortresses at the French border. The
disadvantage was that this meant that Britain will also com in the war,
but the Kaiser had spoken. For the Germans the advance was really good
and the Schlieffen Plan seemed to work, Germans could ...

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in Silisia which were in danger by
the Russians. Also Germany had to send way more troops to the eastern
frontier, because of the great victories that Russia achieved.

During the reorganization of the eastern front another major battle was
fought in the West at the "Battle Of Ypres" at October 30th. That was one
of the last "open field" battles without heavy artillery support. And it
once again showed the big advantage of the defender against the attacker,
because of the machine gun. Casualties were about 100,000 on the German
side and 50,000 at the British and additional 50,000 on the French side.

Chapter VI, Opening of the War at Sea:

At the beginning the Germans not really tried ...

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