Comments by "Ray Purchase" (@raypurchase801) on "Germany planned for a short war. What went wrong?" video.

@GnomaPhobic Belgium requested the British should uphold their treaty obligations. The contemptible little British Army had been immensely improved following the Boer War. The BEF arrived very swiftly and threw a spanner in the German machine, which the Germans had never anticipated.
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Why did the Plan fail? The Germans didn't expect a contemptible little army to slow their advance to a crawl.
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The Plan failed because the Kaiser didn't expect a contemptible little army to intervene and slow its advance to a crawl. The British Army had been modernised since the Boer War, and arrived very swiftly. In an era before radio, German soldiers didn't realise they were at war with the British and didn't know who was shooting at them. Without British intervention, the Kaiser would've reached Paris as planned.
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@TheFrenchscot Every book about the German advance covers this. Lacking heavy weapons and being smaller than its German counterpart, the British could only mount a fighting retreat. This delayed the German advance and both sides decided to dig in. The Kaiser had always assumed the British wouldn't intervene and that their Army would be slow to mobilise. He was mistaken.
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@@endikaeche4359 What the eff are you referring to?
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@bunkerkorpf1440 Anglo Saxons? WTF are you writing about? The British Army was indeed small by continental standards in 1914, but it delayed the Kaiser's army until it could continue no more.
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Shackled to a corpse.
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