 Complete the following phrase:  The German Schlieffen Plan is a notable example of the cult of the offensive. Supported by offensively-minded officers such as Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, it was executed in the first month of the war with some historians maintaining it was nearly victorious, though others claim the Plan never had any chance of success. A French counter-attack on the outskirts of Paris, the 