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"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-) 08/31/2017 at 20:21 • Filed to: None

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The “Blitzkrieg” was FAKE NEWS!!!

Although the narrator is German. So maybe revisionist history!?!?!?!?! o_O

Hot Takes Salesman > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 08/31/2017 at 20:27

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*Austrian. He served in the Bundesheer.

Sweet Trav > DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time 08/31/2017 at 20:49

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This video is mostly right as verified by my minor in military history. I took multiple courses with Robert M. Citino (one of the sources listed in the video) at Eastern Michigan University. I took a class called: Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: A study of operational warfare. I also took his class called The German Way of War which focuses on pre-Nazi germany warfare and shows the tactics that were carryovers from ages ago (I also took a class called The Death of the Wehrmacht and The Quest for Decisive Warfare [He named all of his classes after his books, how original]) What this video leaves out, is the importance of understanding how WWI communications were handled. Many commanders had so much information on such a broad battlefield that they suffered paralysis by analysis. bewegungskrieg is a much better term for the “Blitzkreig” as it was coined in the papers. This was the Prussian/german warfare style for ages, but what really made the blitzkreig work was the radio, it allowed real time communication, the other lesson that was learned in WWI was that subordinate commanders needed to have some level of autonomy. The Movement oriented operational warfare of the Germans, bewegungskrieg, combined with the increased command and control offered by the radio and combined arms the notion that you could have air, infantry and armor working together and accurately controlled was something new, that the world had never seen before. The word Blitzkreig was a bad word in Citino’s class, but there is some truth to the term being used to describe something that though it was an evolution of warfare had never been seen before. The one term that is left out of their video that should be added is Kesselschlacht, everyone thinks that this form of maneuver was essentially invented on the eastern front, but it was something that Fredrick The Great’s Prussian army had done for years. It is an operation wherein your forces out flank and surround a larger force, ending in their destruction or surrender. This movement was crucial to the early successes of the German army.

bubblestheturtle > Sweet Trav 08/31/2017 at 20:55

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I hate people that know what they are talking about. It damages my ability to just believe the last thing I heard.

Sweet Trav > bubblestheturtle 08/31/2017 at 20:59

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Overall, the video is fairly accurate, where it slips up is the onslaught of the German war machine in 1939 was something the world had never seen.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Sweet Trav 08/31/2017 at 21:04

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The Somne was the perfect example of British high command controlling everything, while the Germans let the junior officers make decisions on the fly.

Fast forward to 1940where the French were still relying carefully coordinated tank formations vs the germans “whatever gets the job done”

Sweet Trav > gmporschenut also a fan of hondas 08/31/2017 at 21:08

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I mean I don’t really think that anyone was prepared for how fast warfare would happen in WWII. So many advancements so quickly. The concept of combined arms was something that the germans started and the USA has perfected.

shop-teacher > Sweet Trav 08/31/2017 at 23:08

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That is a seriously interesting minor. I wish I would’ve thought to do that.