The 1905 memorandum was likely a staff exercise or a tool to advocate for more troops, not an actual operational plan for a two-front war.
Explores actual German plans and the recognizeed decline in German power. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Plann...
Gerhard Ritter’s 1956 work that first began questioning the traditional narrative. The Schlieffen Plan explained - Imperial War Museums The 1905 memorandum was likely a staff exercise