The Chieftain's Hatch: Truth as We Know It: Reprise
Дата: 02.10.2017 07:59:03
Tracer001, on Oct 01 2017 - 22:40, said: I'd be careful of using this book as a source for any arguments
personally. I had a guy on a wargaming forum use this book to
discredit Blitzkrieg and upon reading the entire book I
realized what others have said, this book was revisionist history
and it was full of wrong assumptions. Don't forget that
lightning war was not only a German design. Sevchin of the
USSR back in 1927 I believe was the father of this strategy.
He labelled it I believe Deep Battle and Deep Operation. Had
Stalin not murdered his officer corp his better generals could have
done much to stall the German advance. When you consider
tactics of WWI anything slightly mobile and using air force can be
considered blitzkrieg.The_Chieftain: Mmm. The book is well regarded by the US Army's Command and
General Staff College. I'm not entirely sure who's arguing what,
here. Frieser argues that the idea of "Blitzkrieg" wasn't even in
existence in 1940 as far as the Germans were concerned, but he does
not argue, that I can recall, that the ideas of combined arms
warfare were not originally created elsewhere. Let me go back and
have another read of the relevant section. In any case, the
meat of the book is based on the operational histories of the units
in question, they are not really open to revisionism.
The Chieftain's Hatch: Truth as We Know It: Reprise