... ineffectual since mobilization immediately meant war. Like the Schlieffen Plan, the French Plan VII called for the concentration of troops in a single area in an attempt to decisively defeat the enemy. Selecting Alsace-Lorraine for the offensive against Germany, France left Paris open to a northeasterly offensive from Germany, as proposed in the Schlieffen Plan. Regardless of the pros and cons to their plans, Europe's ... warn surface- bound vessels when a U-boat was in a position to attack, arguing that such warning undermined the very purpose of the submarine. Germany, too, was well a...

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