Paris: The French military urge their counterparts
Posted on July 27th, 1914 by admin
Paris: The French military urge their counterparts in St Petersburg that if hostilities break out to immediately take the offensive in East Prussia despite the slowness of Russian mobilisation.
A Russian attack in the east will draw German forces away from the expected big German attack against France in the west. They know German military strategy is to first defeat France then to turn on the slower mobilising Russians. [More]