Two men associated with the development of this tactic are British officers Liddell Hart and JFC Fuller, and another early proponent of this idea was the author of The Army of the Future, Charles de Gaulle. This tactic includes the creation of a center of gravity, or Schwerpunkt, on a front, as well as the coordinated use of artillery and air power
Two men associated with the development of this tactic are British officers Liddell Hart and JFC Fuller, and another early proponent of this idea was the author of The Army of the Future, Charles de Gaulle. This tactic includes the creation of a center of gravity, or Schwerpunkt, on a front, as well as the coordinated use of artillery and air power to take out strong points in a line, leading to encirclement by armor. Famously put into use by the Nazis in their invasions of Poland, France and Russia, for 10 points, name this combined-arms tactic from World War II, German for "lightning war."
Two men associated with the development of this tactic are British officers Liddell Hart and JFC Fuller, and another early proponent of this idea
{Blitzkrieg} [accept {lightning war} before mention; prompt on things like “combined arms tactics”]