What Blitzkrieg Looks Like

Blitzkrieg:German for "lightning war“

Employed mobile forces • Emphasize speed and surprise

– Prevent an enemy from organizing a coherent defense.– Designed to outmaneuver the enemy rather than attacking him

head on.

• Uses concentrated tank forces supported by mobile infantry, artillery and close air support assets.

• Used a decentralized command structure

• Knock out an enemy's communications, supply, and morale

• Move faster than your enemy can think.

• In combat, blitzkrieg forced slower defending forces into defensive pockets that were encircled and by the armored units then destroyed by following German infantry.

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