The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914 Quotes

“In an anecdote attributed to Bismarck, he said, “When I am dying, I want to move to Mecklenburg because everything happens there one hundred years late.”
― Dennis E. Showalter, The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan

“It is particularly necessary to watch over the preservation of arms in the interval of a long peace, when they are most likely to degenerate. It is important to foster the military spirit in the armies and to exercise them in great manoeuvres which, though but faintly resembling those of actual war, still are of decided advantage in preparing them for war.—Jomini1”
― Dennis E. Showalter, The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan

“Discovery learning” by those who had to execute the plan would be the norm.”
― Dennis E. Showalter, The German Failure in Belgium, August 1914: How Faulty Reconnaissance Exposed the Weakness of the Schlieffen Plan