Blitzkrieg | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:04:38 1 Definition
00:04:47 1.1 Common interpretation
00:06:34 1.2 Origin of the term
00:11:07 2 Military evolution, 1919–1939
00:11:20 2.1 Germany
00:17:04 2.2 Britain
00:19:53 2.3 France
00:21:06 2.4 Russia/USSR
00:22:56 2.5 Nazi Germany
00:23:58 2.5.1 Guderian
00:26:32 2.5.2 Rommel
00:28:10 3 Methods of operations
00:28:21 3.1 iSchwerpunkt/i
00:30:05 3.2 Pursuit
00:31:55 3.3 Mopping-up
00:32:47 3.4 Air power
00:34:31 4 Limitations and countermeasures
00:34:42 4.1 Environment
00:36:45 4.2 Air superiority
00:40:36 4.3 Counter-tactics
00:43:29 4.4 Logistics
00:45:07 5 Military operations
00:45:17 5.1 Spanish Civil War
00:47:10 5.2 Poland, 1939
00:50:16 5.3 Western Europe, 1940
00:55:21 5.4 Eastern Front, 1941–44
01:01:24 5.5 Western Front, 1944–45
01:04:10 6 Post-war controversy
01:04:44 6.1 Strategy
01:07:46 6.2 Doctrine
01:12:34 6.3 Economics
01:18:10 6.4 iHeer/i
01:20:27 6.5 iLuftwaffe/i
01:25:01 6.6 Fuller and Liddell Hart
01:30:18 6.7 Continuity
01:32:24 6.8 Guderian
01:38:22 7 See also



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Blitzkrieg  (German pronunciation: [ˈblɪtskʁiːk] (listen), from Blitz ("lightning") + Krieg ("war")) is a method of warfare whereby an attacking force, spearheaded by a dense concentration of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations with close air support, breaks through the opponent's line of defence by short, fast, powerful attacks and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them with the help of air superiority. Through the employment of combined arms in manoeuvre warfare, blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for it to respond to the continuously changing front, then defeat it in a decisive  Vernichtungsschlacht (battle of annihilation).During the interwar period, aircraft and tank technologies matured and were combined with systematic application of the traditional German tactic of Bewegungskrieg (maneuver warfare), deep penetrations and the bypassing of enemy strong points to encircle and destroy enemy forces in a Kesselschlacht (cauldron battle). During the Invasion of Poland, Western journalists adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare. The term had appeared in 1935, in a German military periodical Deutsche Wehr (German Defence), in connection to quick or lightning warfare. German manoeuvre operations were successful in the campaigns of 1939–1941 and by 1940 the term blitzkrieg was extensively used in Western media. Blitzkrieg operations capitalized on surprise penetrations (e.g., the penetration of the Ardennes forest region), general enemy unreadiness and their inability to match the pace of the German attack. During the Battle of France, the French made attempts to re-form defensive lines along rivers but were frustrated when German forces arrived first and pressed on.Despite being common in German and English-language journalism during World War II, the word Blitzkrieg was never used by the Wehrmacht as an official military term, except for propaganda. According to David Reynolds, "Hitler himself called the term Blitzkrieg 'A completely idiotic word' (ein ganz blödsinniges Wort)". Some senior officers, including Kurt Student, Franz Halder and Johann Adolf von Kielmansegg, even disputed the idea that it was a military concept. Kielmansegg asserted that what many regarded as blitzkrieg was nothing more than "ad hoc solutions that simply popped out of the prevailing situation". Student described it as ideas that "naturally emerged from the existing circumstances" as a response to operational challenges. The Wehrmacht never officially adopted it as a concept or doctrine.In 2005, the historian Karl-Heinz Frieser summarized blitzkrieg as the result of German commanders ...