Post-war writing by senior German officers like Hermann von Kuhl , Gerhard Tappen , Wilhelm Groener and the historians led by the former ( Lieutenant-Colonel ) Wolfgang Förster , managed Preventing_or_letting to establish a commonly accepted narrative that it was the failure to follow the blueprint by Moltke the Younger , rather than German strategic miscalculation , that condemned Judgment_communication the belligerents to four years of attrition warfare instead of the quick , decisive conflict it `` should '' have been .

In 1956 , Gerhard Ritter published Publishing ( `` The Schlieffen Plan : Critique of a Myth '' ) , which began a period of revision , when the details of the supposed Schlieffen Plan were subjected to scrutiny and contextualisation .

From a 1999 article in War in History and in `` Inventing the Schlieffen Plan '' ( 2002 ) to `` The Real German War Plan , 1906–1914 '' ( 2011 ) , Terence Zuber engaged Participation in a debate with Terence Holmes , Annika Mombauer , Robert Foley , Gerhard Gross , Holger Herwig and others .

He then travelled Traveling to Germany and met with Come_together Gerhard Schröder .