The response to objections about troop capacity, artillery, ammunition, and unloading time changes the planning baseline. If an amphibious attack replaced the historical Schlieffen Plan, Germany would likely invest in liner terminals, modify ports for rapid loading, and subsidize ships that could unload themselves more effectively. The same institutional commitment historically devoted to railway timetables would instead have to shape commercial ship design and port mobilization. Those measures would not eliminate the risk, but they show how a long-prepared war plan creates specialized infrastructure before mobilization begins.
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An amphibious Schlieffen Plan would reshape liners and ports
The proposed Channel invasion would require Germany to prepare merchant liners, embarkation ports, and unloading systems as deliberately as it historically prepared railways for the Schlieffen Plan.