Was blitzkrieg just a big meme?
I'm not even sure how to respond to this.
>>1241318
sage, hide, report.
>>1241322
>report
Whoa there. This is a historical question that pertains to this board.
>>1241313
>Was blitzkrieg just a big meme?
No.
The Germans made it so their tankus could radio the airpeople to get the stukas to bring in close air support. This combined with the collection of panzers into divisions that would break through in heavy force and then race as deep into the enemy rear as possible was a big development in tactics and operations.
>>1241313
Yes. The concept of attacking quickly had always been around. The Nazis just did it really well
After the type of slow but deadly trench warfare that monopolized World War I, Blitzkrieg was a very effective method that pretty much transformed the war
Blitzkrieg is a term that was invented after the war. German officers never used it.
>>1241313
Subetei invented proto-blitzkrieg in his invasion of hungary and poland
Blitzkrieg was never used in official documents. If it is from that, whether it was an official doctrine or not, then no, in 1939 it wasn't even used and in the French Campaign in 1940 the campaign of fast movement happened in disregard of the officers of the high command, not because of them.
If we're referring to the results, then obviously they happened, but they weren't because of any radical innovations in official doctrine.
It wasn't like other nations didn't envision the breakthrough role too, pretty much everybody saw that as the role for tanks and had the breakthrough task for their cavalry divisions (although they also had infantry support tanks and the like ofc). Soviet Deep Battle doctrine was also focused on rapid attack and breakthrough, although its execution was wildly different.
>>1241313
The image of a highly mechanized Wehrmacht was. The spearhead that wrecked the French defence plans in 1940 was just that - a spearhead. The vast majority of German army marched on foot and with horses.
A blitzkrieg-like concept, a concentrated air & tank attack on the enemy's command and communications, was actually already thought up in Britain as Plan 1919.
Defence fortifications built in depth, like in Kursk 1943, effectively thwarted a blitzkrieg approach.
>>1241376
Especially when you were fighting a French army that still trained for trench warfare.
In what possible way could the Blitzkrieg be a meme?
How, in any definition of the word "meme", could it be used in the context of the Blitzkrieg?
Are you a retard, OP?
Sage this bollocks back into the shadow from whence it came.
