What were Allied War Plans for 1918 prior to the German Spring Offensives?

Basically what it says on the tin, what were the allied war plans for 1918.

I know that previously, the allied forces made their plans during the winter in Chantilly, to my knowledge they did this in 1914-16, but I haven’t found anything about a 1917 conference.

I have recently been trying to figure out what the allies would have done if the Germans hadn’t been able to go on the offensive that spring. Would they just hunker down and wait for the Americans to arrive in large numbers? Would they attempt another assault on the German lines given the failures and French collapse the previous year?

I am not interested in why the Germans would be unable to go on the offensive, at least for now, but if anyone could answer my question I would be grateful.

Thanks!
 
I think it was just to wait for the Americans, while shoring up Italy and keeping pressure on the Central Powers elsewhere.
 
I think it was just to wait for the Americans, while shoring up Italy and keeping pressure on the Central Powers elsewhere.

Do you know if there were any conferences or the like where this was determined? And wouldn’t pressure elsewhere amount to Palestine, Mesopotamia and Salonica? All three of which are really tertiary fronts with little real impact on the central conflict?
 
Things changed after the USA entered the war. Overall strategy changed to grind the Germans (and their comrades) to dust with American material.
 
Things changed after the USA entered the war. Overall strategy changed to grind the Germans (and their comrades) to dust with American material.

Sure, but the Americans entered the war in mid-1917, so what plans were being worked out by the allies in late 1917 - early 1918 about how to break the Germans. I was hoping for specifics.
 
Any particular interest?

I am doing preliminary research for a timeline where it is relevant.

Wasn't the plan for a 1919 offensive, with overwhelming superiority?

Does that mean that there were no plans for offensives in 1918? Or any other sorts of plans for that year? That would seem surprising to me, sure time is on their side, but giving the Germans more than a year without major action on the western front seems like a very bad idea.

Having a 1919 offensive seems undoubtable, but that does leave an entire year for the situation in France and Britain to deteriorate, while the eastern front collapses in on itself.
 

elkarlo

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Things changed after the USA entered the war. Overall strategy changed to grind the Germans (and their comrades) to dust with American material.
This, as well as basically the French and Italians were really basically incapable of offensive operations in early 1918.
They were left to wait for the Americans , I don't think the French could have gone on the offensive again without US entry due to low morale.
 
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