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@Perkeo
"Yes, we can." ... or they could have I would summarize the post-war work of Hermann v. Staabs about the subject, with exactly as you described it :
deployment of 6th and 7th army almost exactly as per "valid" plan, some changes to detrain-stations for parts of 4th and 5th army (on the lines they were already "earmarked" for).
Keeping other troops in garrison until the railways section commands got their first panicking fit eased (couple of days) and then 1st, 2nd, 3rd army to the east.
However, what he also names as an very important necessity : the will AND the dicision on 1st/2nd August to do so by the goverment/"Reichsleitung"
and
an overall idea of how to deploy with what strategic/tactical goals ... as well as a person to push, formulate and insist for this towards the officers corps.
Btw : an "idea of how to deploy with what strategic/tactical goals" they had a blueprint at hands : all the plans for the Eastern deployment until 1912/1913, the last time this concept was updated. These concepts weres till there (otherwise Terence Zuber couldn't have brought them to general knockledge
).
(as said : only the detailed orders for single units where and when to meet which train at what station etc., etc. were destroyed every year)
"Yes, we can." ... or they could have I would summarize the post-war work of Hermann v. Staabs about the subject, with exactly as you described it :
deployment of 6th and 7th army almost exactly as per "valid" plan, some changes to detrain-stations for parts of 4th and 5th army (on the lines they were already "earmarked" for).
Keeping other troops in garrison until the railways section commands got their first panicking fit eased (couple of days) and then 1st, 2nd, 3rd army to the east.
However, what he also names as an very important necessity : the will AND the dicision on 1st/2nd August to do so by the goverment/"Reichsleitung"
and
an overall idea of how to deploy with what strategic/tactical goals ... as well as a person to push, formulate and insist for this towards the officers corps.
Btw : an "idea of how to deploy with what strategic/tactical goals" they had a blueprint at hands : all the plans for the Eastern deployment until 1912/1913, the last time this concept was updated. These concepts weres till there (otherwise Terence Zuber couldn't have brought them to general knockledge
(as said : only the detailed orders for single units where and when to meet which train at what station etc., etc. were destroyed every year)
