Posted on Dec 9, 2015
MAJ Ken Landgren
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What gave impetus to Germany's revolutionary tactic called Blitzkrieg?
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Edited 9 y ago
Primarily because they had been planning the invasion for more than a decade, while the allies naively believed that the war would never happen. They were also the first to put air support control with field units via radio's most other Armies at the time retained control with a higher command causing tactical delay. (Napoleon was the first to use a cannon in combined arms, Hitler used tanks and airplanes) But the primary reason wasn't that Germany was so prepared it's that the French reliance on the Maginot line and the Dyle plan fell right into Germany's Plan resulting in Dunkirk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyle_Plan
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MAJ Ken Landgren
MAJ Ken Landgren
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The technology, doctrine, and TTPs took a lot of national effort and focus to establish.
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Blitzkreig was still more of an accidental discovery due to French failures not so much to German Superiority. France had numerical superiority and better equipment on the ground, the Germans had air superiority and radio's in all their tanks. French Char B1 vs Panzer II. 28 tons vs 8 tons, 20cm vs 2 cm main armament. The German tanks were 10 kmh faster.

This wiki page is a good easy read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_France#World_War_II
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LTC Paul Labrador
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The German education model for their staff officers and junior leaders was excellent. Ironically (considering how Nazis took power), staff officers were taught to be critical thinkers and they analyzed the lessons of not only from WW1 but conflicts before that and determined why things happened the way they did and worked on solutions to not have it happen again.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
MAJ Ken Landgren
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Yes it was very institutionalized, broad, and deep to include input from infantry squads and other branches.
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PO1 Todd Cousins
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It has to do with the way of thought during this time. They adjusted to the changes in warfare where the west did not.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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They sure did!
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