Blitzkrieg
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Blitzkrieg was a military strategy used by Nazi Germany that combined fast-moving tanks and mechanized infantry to overwhelm enemies quickly, as shown by German forces advancing through Ukraine in 1942. It matters because this approach to warfare—coordinating different types of forces to move rapidly—became one of the defining military tactics of World War II.
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47 sectionsContents
- Definition
- Common interpretation
- Origin of term
- Military evolution, 1919–1939
- Germany
- Britain
- France
- Russia and Soviet Union
- Nazi Germany
- Guderian
- Rommel
- Methods of operations
- ''Schwerpunkt''
- Pursuit
- Mopping-up
- Air power
- Stimulants
- Limitations and countermeasures
- Environment
- Air superiority
- Counter-tactics
- Logistics
- Military operations
- Spanish Civil War
- Poland, 1939
- Low Countries and France, 1940
- Eastern Front, 1941–1944
- Western Front, 1944–1945
- Post-war controversy
- Strategy
- Doctrine
- Economics
- ''Heer''
- ''Luftwaffe''
- Fuller and Liddell Hart
- Continuity
- Guderian
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Bibliography
- Books
- Conferences
- Journals
- Websites
- Further reading
- External links
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Blitzkrieg (Lightning/Flash Warfare) is a word 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, dislocate the defenders, confuse the enemy by making it difficult to respond to the continuously changing front, and defeat them in a decisive : a battle of annihilation.