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16th May '13 11:00:22 PM PatPayne

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* Imperial Germany's mobilization plans at the beginning of WorldWarOne come extremely close to this trope. The General Staff had planned, meticulously, the invasions of Luxembourg, Belgium and France, to the point of mandating how many train axles had to cross a certain point of track in a given time. Once Germany threw the switch, everything would work like clockwork and [[BlatantLies victory would be assured]]. One fly in the ointment -- at the eleventh hour, just before the German forces were to cross into Belgium (which automatically brought Britain into the war), Kaiser Wilhelm had a last-ditch flurry of diplomacy that he hoped would have resulted in France pulling out of its alliance with Russia, allowign the Germans to fight a one-front war. Von Moltke, the head of the German Army, was much more annoyed that the Kaiser had dared to disrupt the intricate mobilization plan after it had been enacted (he was also concerned that doing so would cause chaos in the western segments of the army as the trains were turned around) and lobbied against any change. In the end, the negotiations fell through, Germany invaded Belgium, and World War One was on. 
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