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Only Peasants call it "BLITZKRIEG" - Bewegungskrieg

I found "Blitzkrieg" in a German military publication from December 1939 and it was published by the General Staff as well. Still, the term was rarely used and what the Germans were all about - for a long time - was "Bewegungskrieg" (war of movement) and to prevent the dreaded "Stellungskrieg" (positional war), whereas trench warfare ("Grabenkrieg") would be a subset of. »» GET BOOKS & VIDEOS «« » Stukabook - Doctrine of the German Dive-Bomber - http://stukabook.com » The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944 (StG 44) - http://sturmzug.com » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com » Tank Assault - Combat Manual of the Soviet Tank Forces 1944 - http://stm44.com » IS-2 Stalin's Warhammer - http://www.is-2tank.com » StuG: Ausbildung, Einsatz und Führung der StuG Batterie - http://stug-hdv.de » Achtung Panzer? Zur Panzerwaffe der Wehrmacht - http://panzerkonferenz.de » Panzerkonferenz Video - http://pzkonf.de »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized »» SOURCES «« Frieser, Karl-Heinz: Blitzkrieg-Legende: der Westfeldzug 1940, 4. Auflage, Oldenbourg: München, 2012. Citino, Robert Michael: The German Way of War: From the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich, University press of Kansas: Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 2005 (Modern war studies). Reichskriegsministerium (Hg.): Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau. 1937-1945. Franke, Hermann (Hg.): Handbuch der neuzeitlichen Wehrwissenschaften. Erster Band: Weltpolitik und Kriegführung, Verlag von Walter de Gruyter & Co.: Berlin und Leipzig, Germany, 1936. Hughes, Daniel J.: Blitzkrieg, in: Brassey's Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare, p. 155-162 Ong, Weichong: Blitzkrieg: Revolution or Evolution?, in: RUSI December 2017 – Vol. 152 No. 6, p. 82-87 Harris, J.P.: The Myth of Blitzkrieg, in War in History 1995 2 (3), p. 335-352 00:00 Intro 01:18 „Bewegungskrieg” everywhere 01:42 The Sources: Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau & Handbuch der neuzeitlichen Wehrwissenschaften 03:04 Bewegungskrieg & Stellungskrieg in the Sources 03:53 Bewegung the source for Victory 04:31 Bewegungs- vs Stellungskrieg 05:24 First World War 06:38 Degeneration of War 07:51 But what about “Blitzkrieg”? 10:12 Militärwissenschaftliche Rundschau on “Blitzkrieg” 11:28 Summary #Blitzkrieg #bewegungskrieg #ww2 #wehrmacht #germanarmy #mythvsreality

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Ted M Jones

After everyone's negative experience with static warfare during the Great War, you needed to sell a new war as being quick and decisive. How to achieve that required an offensive of sustained movement -- the Battle of France being the best example. Not that "war of movement" was anything new. Look at Napoleon, especially before Ulm. (The Waterloo Campaign was anything but a war of movement and that was the undoing of the French.) In the American Civil War you had a repeating pattern of movement being blocked into static warfare. The most successful generals on both sides were known for moving quickly. I favor Eisenhower over Patton, but Patton was correct about movement putting you at an advantage. Your enemy has to respond and that takes time. Unfortunately, the enemy of movement is logistics. Unless you can live off the land.

Vlad the Impaler

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