Word: blitzkrieg
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...enemy was not attempting a Blitzkrieg. Rather his strangling assault was a slow, ponderous, Montgomeryesque offensive which wound up laboriously, smashed ahead for carefully calculated distances with irresistible force, then paused to crank up again for the next lunge...
...important question still untouched was: What now makes military sense? In the world of Blitzkrieg, the U.S. might lose a war before it had time to train a civilian army and build its elaborate, modern weapons. The U.S. might also lose a war if it established peacetime conscription but failed to maintain a keen professional air force...
...penalized. In the 1930s Soviet air-war theory was characterized by bold ideas. It was a Russian, Amiragov, who was among the first to state that a modern war must start with a coordinated assault by tanks and aircraft. The Germans were at work on this nucleus of the Blitzkrieg idea, but the rest of Europe paid little attention. The Russians were the first to experiment on a large scale with mass dropping of parachute troops, and among the first with gliderborne assault forces. But it was the Germans who first carried these tactics out in battle. Somewhere along...
...Spanish Civil War was a laboratory for the Russians as it was for the Axis. The Russians watched the German Blitzkrieg rehearsal with military as well as political interest; at Guadalajara their own planes effectively chewed up the Italian armor in the world's first great demonstration of attack aviation. But their planes were behind the times. Soviet design and production were not up to Soviet theory. By the beginning of the Finnish war the Russian planes were still not up to snuff and the job had to be done mainly with that faithful old standby -masses of artillery...
...came to Russia. For five months the Germans moved with wondrous speed and dazzling power. Stubborn Voronov stuck to his artillery. There came a time when the Wehrmacht's great blitzkrieg machine stood at the gates of Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Caucasus. Voronov still stuck to his artillery...