Calling for a quick offensive through Belgium into northern France and foiled in part by the quick mobilization of Russian forces and a French victory at the Battle of the Marne, FTP, identify this German strategy for winning World War I, named for a German field marshal.
Gerhard Ritter wrote a Critique of a Myth about this in 1956, while Hermann Stegemann's contemporary chronicle made no mention of it.  Instead, it was brought into the popular psyche by histories written by men like Wolfgang Forester and Hermann von Kuhl.  It was correctly anticipated by Yuri Danilov who proposed, under pressure from his allies, to use not only fortifications but expeditions of some 19 corps of his troops to counteract it.  Ferdinand Foch devised one of its principle counterparts, which foolishly relied on the "élan" and resulted in the unsuccessful attempt to take Alsace and Lorraine in a campaign later dubbed the Battle of the Frontiers.  It was effectively ended after General Moltke isolated his troops from the front line and the Race to the Sea proved indecisive.  Calling for a quick offensive through Belgium into northern France and foiled in part by the quick mobilization of Russian forces and a French victory at the Battle of the Marne, FTP, identify this German strategy for winning World War I, named for a German field marshal.
Gerhard Ritter wrote a Critique of a Myth about this in 1956, while Hermann Stegemann's contemporary chronicle made no mention of it.  
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