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Blitzkrieg

Blitzkrieg (lit. 'Lightning Warfare') is a German term used to describe a combined arms surprise attack, using a rapid, overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations, together with artillery, air assault, and close air support. The intent is to break through an opponent's lines of defense…

Art, Military evolution, 1919–1939 & Military operations

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Blitzkrieg

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related to Journals · 62
Blitzkrieg → Advancing Backwards, An Interview, Another View, April, Archived, August, Belorussian, Charles, Citino, Contributions, CS1, Die, Donald, Edward, Erickson, Fanning, Feeling, First World War, Four Point Offensive, Francis Group
related to Doctrine · 27
Blitzkrieg → Adam Tooze, Citino, Frieser, Further, General Staff, German, Germany, Germany's, Hanson, Harris, Historian Victor Davis Hanson, Hitler, Karl-Heinz Frieser, Most, Munich, Naveh, Nazi, November, Overy, Panzer
related to Russia and Soviet Union · 25
Blitzkrieg → Brusilov Offensive, General Alexei Brusilov, Georgii Isserson, In, Inter-Allied Commission, Kazan, Later, Lipetsk, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Polish, Realising, Red Army, Robert Watt, Second World War, Soviet, Soviet Russia, Soviet Union, Soviet War, The, The Reichswehr
related to Fuller and Liddell Hart · 23
Blitzkrieg → After, By, Captain Basil Henry Liddell, English, Erich, Erwin Rommel, German, Guderian, Guderian's, Hart, Heinz Guderian, Imposing, In, John Frederick Charles Fuller, Kenneth Macksey, Liddell Hart, Liddell Hart's, Manstein, The, The British
related to Strategy · 23
Blitzkrieg → Captain Robert O'Neill, George Raudzens, German, German Army, History, In, In Doctrine, Luftwaffe, Matthew Cooper, Military, Nazi Germany, O'Neill, Other, Oxford, Professor, Richard Overy, That, That Nazi Germany, The, Training
related to Heer · 22
Blitzkrieg → Americans, British, During, First World War, French, French Army, Frieser, German, German Army, Half, Heer, Imperial German Army, In, IPA-label-small, John Mosier, Only, Second World War, The British, The German Army, Thus
related to Britain · 21
Blitzkrieg → Battle, Battles, British, During, Field Service Regulations, General Edmund Allenby, Judean Hills, Mechanization, Megiddo, Nablus, Ottoman, Palestine, Sharon, Sinai, Success, That, The, The British Army, Through, To
related to Continuity · 21
Blitzkrieg → At, Citino, Elder, European, First World War, German, German Wars, Germans, Harris, It, Moltke, Panzer, Prussia, Rather, RMA, Robert, Second World War, Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus, The, Thirty Years' War
related to France · 18
Blitzkrieg → Armée, Colonel Charles, First World War, France, French, French Generals Charles Mangin, Gaulle, Heinz Guderian, Henrik Bering, His, However, Like, Marie-Eugène Debeney, Norman Stone, Professional Army, Seeckt, Towards, Vers
related to Luftwaffe · 18
Blitzkrieg → Aerial War, After, Corum, During, General Walther Wever, Giulio Douhet's, Guernica, James Corum, Luftwaffe, Luftwaffe's, Rotterdam, Rotterdam Blitz, Such, Terror, The, The Conduct, This, Warsaw

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german war army forces military used warfare luftwaffe armored guderian operations term world battle air operational wrote infantry support first

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Blitzkriegis acoordinated military effort by tanks0.90text
Willy Rohr developed tactics to restore maneuver on the battlefieldinstance ofofficers0.80text
Ludwig Ritter von Eimannsbergerinstance ofGuderian's book incorporated the work of theorists0.80text
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The Tank Warinstance ofGuderian's book incorporated the work of theorists0.80text
Blitzkriegrelated to BritainThe British Army0.60section
Blitzkriegrelated to BritainWestern Front0.60section
Blitzkriegrelated to BritainTo0.60section
Blitzkriegrelated to BritainMechanization0.60section
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Blitzkriegrelated to BritainField Service Regulations0.60section
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