Editing Battle of Liège (section)

====Belgium====
{{Main article|Belgian Army order of battle (1914)}}
[[File:World War 1 Headlines R01.jpg|thumb|{{centre|Headline in {{lang|fr|[[Le Soir]]}}, 4 August 1914}}]]
Belgian military planning was based on an assumption that other powers would expel an invader. The likelihood of a German invasion did not lead to France and Britain being seen as allies or for the Belgian government to intend to do more than protect its independence. The [[Anglo-French Entente]] (1904) had led the Belgians to perceive that the British attitude to Belgium had changed and that it was seen as a British protectorate. A General Staff was formed in 1910 but the {{lang|fr|Chef d'État-Major Général de l'Armée}} (Chief of the General Staff), Lieutenant-Général Harry Jungbluth was retired on 30 June 1912 and not replaced until May 1914 by Lieutenant-General Chevalier de Selliers de Moranville who began planning for the concentration of the army and met railway officials on 29 July.{{sfn|Strachan|2003|pp=209–210}}

Belgian troops were to be massed in central Belgium, in front of the [[National redoubt of Belgium|national redoubt]] ready to face any border. On mobilisation, the King became Commander-in-Chief and chose where the army was to concentrate. Amid the disruption of the new rearmament plan, the disorganised and poorly trained Belgian soldiers would benefit from a central position, to delay contact with an invader but it would also need fortifications for defence, which were on the frontier. A school of thought wanted a return to a frontier deployment in line with French theories of the offensive. Belgian plans became a compromise in which the field army concentrated behind the [[Gete River]] with two divisions forward at Liège and Namur.{{sfn|Strachan|2003|pp=210–211}}