Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Douhet believed that early control of the air is essential for quick victory. This was proved in Spain, where Germany tested many theories and where Franco took two years to get control of the air, then won hands down. By 1937, when General Brauchitsch took command at Leipzig, it was already pretty clear that to deliver a lightning blow Germany needed not only a superlative air force, but plenty of motorized strength...
After the catastrophe on the Somme in 1917, General Ludendorff was persuaded by a group of his junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...
...Take It is a question the French General Staff must have been thinking about a long time. Steady artillery pounding, while useful for protecting advancing troops, probably cannot do the most important part of the job. In an advance, artillery must advance too, and artillery advances are not measured in hours but in days. Furthermore, artillery duels between open and emplaced positions have a way of going in favor of the latter...
...Aged 71, Major General Fritz von Lossberg retired from the Army...
...general rule, a tough barroom bouncer figures to hang a shanty on the most rambunctious college guy. After the brawly bouncing around that occurred last week in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, the rule still stood...