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Interesting take on what cost Germany the war in the first month: " The Battle of the Marne as the last set-piece battle fought on rules of classical strategy. Superior French command and control (And taxis) decided this battle; Moltke was content to remain in headquarters hundreds of miles from the front and let his armies execute a rigid plan while Joffre successfully coordinated his armies in a coherent strategy in real time. Joffre surely had a better understanding of what Kluck was doing-good aerial observers- than Moltke did as his transfers from the Marne to the Ourcq were transparent from ground level. Modern warfare had clearly not yet reached a stage where managing the actions of hundreds of thousands of men was impossible." Moi? Flexibility over rigidity? In better detail: the tide turns...http://www.theartofbattle.com/battle-of-the-marne-1914.htm