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Belgian armed resistance was a mast stuck in the wheels of the German war machine in 1914, the discovery that the Belgians would fight back scared the Germany's diplomatic staff, enough to get them to lie about French attacks, and try bribing Belgium with French territory.
I recently found myself thinking, would the Schlieffen plan have had a chance for success, given one of the following?
The King of Belgium dies some time before the war in a ski accident; he is replaced by someone else who is more passive and pro-german; when the German ultimatum arrives, he persuades the Belgian Government it's in their interest to allow Germany through peacefully; (nationwide character assassination, probably)
Germany does not take Belgian complacency for granted and prepares a plan B in case the worst should happen; such plan allows the Germans to either crush Belgium or scare them into rapidly surrendering (possibly by heavy use of heavy long range artillery), instead of getting bogged down in sieges and having to deal with the Belgians flooding their own country to disrupt German manouvers (somewhat more likely? Though I can't picture the Germans questioning their own plans)