質問: 英文翻訳をお願いします。 german strategy had given priority to offensive operations against france and a defensive posture against russia since 1891. german planning was determined by numerical inferiority, the speed of mobilisation and concentration and the effect of the vast increase of the power of modern weapons. frontal attacks were expected to be costly and protracted, leading to limited success, particularly after the french and russians modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with germany. alfred von schlieffen chief of the imperial german general staff (oberste heeresleitung "ohl") from 1891–1906 devised a plan to evade the french frontier fortifications, with an offensive on the northern flank which would have a local numerical superiority and obtain rapidly a decisive victory. by 1898–1899 such a manoeuvre was intended to rapidly pass through belgium, between antwerp and namur and threaten paris from the north. helmuth von moltke the younger succeeded schlieffen in 1906 and was less certain that the french would conform to german assumptions. moltke adapted the deployment and concentration plan, to accommodate an attack in the centre or an enveloping attack from both flanks as variants to the plan, by adding divisions to the left flank opposite the french frontier, from the c. 1,700,000 men expected to be mobilised in the westheer ("western army"). the main german force would still advance through belgium and attack southwards into france, the french armies would be enveloped on the left and pressed back over the meuse, aisne, somme, oise, marne and seine, unable to withdraw into central france. the french would either be annihilated or the manoeuvre from the north would create conditions for victory in the centre or in lorraine on the common border.
回答: 一点補足です。 「青年ヘルムート・フォン・モルトケ」 は、「ヘルムート・フォン・モルトケ(小モルトケ)」。 作家の 大デュマ、小デュマのような意味合いだと思いました。