Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke , também conhecido como Moltke, o jovem para diferenciá-lo do seu tio Generalfeldmarschall Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, foi chefe de Estado-Maior General da Alemanha entre 1906 e 1914. Seu papel no desenrolar dos planos de guerra alemães e na instigação da Primeira Guerra Mundial são bastante controvertidos. Wikipedia
“It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated.”
Letter to Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (14 June 1915), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, 'Germany', in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), p. 27
Memorandum (5 August 1914), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 126
Letter to his wife during the Agadir Crisis (1911), quoted in L. C. F. Turner, 'The Significance of the Schlieffen Plan', in Paul Kennedy (ed.), The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985), p. 211
Remark to the Austrian Chief of Staff Conrad von Hotzndorf (21 January 1909) during the Bosnian crisis, quoted in L. C. F. Turner, 'The Significance of the Schlieffen Plan', in Paul Kennedy (ed.), The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985), p. 214