The German " concept of annihilation " ( Vernichtungsgedanke ) that later evolved into the Blitzkrieg (" lightning war ") provided for rapid advance of Panzer ( armoured ) divisions, dive bombing ( to break up troop concentrations ), and aerial bombing of undefended cities to sap civilian morale.

The track " Hello Joe " is an homage to Joey Ramone, and includes a reference to " Blitzkrieg Bop " (" hey ho, hola Joe instead of hey ho, let's go ).

Blitzkrieg ( German, " lightning war "; ) is an anglicised word describing all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines, and, once the lines are broken, proceeding without regard to its flank.

The German word Blitzkrieg, which means " lightning war ", was a major offensive strategy of the German army during World War II.

The doctrine of the German armed forces was Blitzkrieg – " lightning war " – very modern, geared solely for fast-paced attack, while the doctrines of the defenders were hopelessly out of date and based heavily on the events of the 1914 – 1918 war, even if Hitler had allegedly said years earlier that the next war would be very different from the last.

* Blitzkrieg – lightning war – quick army invasions aided by tanks and airplanes.

* Blitzkrieg — " lightning war "; not a widely used German military term, this word became popular in the Allied press and initially referred to fast-moving battle tactics developed principally by German military theorists, most notably Erwin Rommel, Heinz Guderian, and Erich von Manstein, using massed tanks and ground-attack bombers to speedily penetrate enemy lines at points and move to their rear, causing confusion and panic among enemy forces.

In 1974, as Deputy Commander of Operations / III Corps, assistant to General Pham Quoc Thuan, Hiếu applied Blitzkrieg ( lightning war ) tactic to alleviate the pressure exerted by 5th Division NVA originating from Svay Rieng Province in the Parrot's Beak area inside Kampuchea territory aiming at Đức Huệ base camp.

" Blitzkrieg Bop " was named after the German World War II tactic blitzkrieg, which means " lightning war ".

* Blitzkrieg, lightning war style attributed to the German Army in World War II

At the outbreak of war, the German army had no radically new theory of war named Blitzkrieg or otherwise.

In contrast, Germany started the war under the concept of Blitzkrieg.

Perhaps the most notable design was the Junkers Ju 87 Stuka dive bomber, one of the Luftwaffe's most effective aerial weapons ( at least in the early war period ) and continually used for bombing attacks as an integral part of the Blitzkrieg strategy.

Full-scale war in Europe began at dawn on September 1, 1939, when Germany used her newly formed Blitzkrieg tactics and military strength to invade Poland, to which both Britain and France had pledged protection and independence guarantees.

Blitzkrieg had, indeed, brought a rapid victory for the Germans, a far cry from the four years of " mud-and-blood " trench warfare that had raged during the previous war, yet even the Germans were feeling the pinch: Albert Kesselring, who would soon be promoted to the rank of Generalfeldmarschall, reflected that the Luftwaffe ’ s effectiveness had been reduced to almost 30 percent of what it had been before the invasion of France.

The British historians Alan S. Milward and W. Medicott show that Nazi Germany — unlike Imperial Germany — was prepared only for a short war ( Blitzkrieg ).

* Blitzkrieg, beginning with Hitler's declaration of war upon Poland ( the Invasion of Poland ) on 1 September 1939 ;

The panzer divisions were the key element of German success in the Blitzkrieg operations of the early years of the war.

Assessing the success of the German Blitzkrieg strategy, operational methods and tactics, it was concluded that the Red Army should return to the use of operational methods developed before the war, and indeed the Tank Armies were eventually created.

The popular conception in the US was that tanks had been used boldly as part of a new system of war called Blitzkrieg.

Originally raised from Austrian forces annexed into Germany during the war, the 9th Panzer Division was part of most of the German Army's early Blitzkrieg attacks into western Europe.

The German surrender that November precluded the implementation of the plan, but it was studied extensively by the Germans and used as the model for their Blitzkrieg attacks during the next war ( Fuller ).

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They were an essential component of the military strategies of the period, such as the German Blitzkrieg or the American and Japanese aircraft carrier campaigns of the Pacific.

In The Blitzkrieg Myth, Mosier argues that the supposedly revolutionary concept of blitzkrieg has been overrated and that most of the victories on both sides were the result of conventional military tactics.

* Panzerkampfwagen ( military ) – " armoured fighting vehicle " = tank ; not specific to Third Reich, but listed here for its centrality to Blitzkrieg.

This swift attack, or Blitzkrieg, ( Lightning War ) was a devastating military operational doctrine, developed by Germans between the World Wars.

Suvorov points to German lack of gasoline in Summer 1941 and the lack of strategic bombers which would have been necessary to destroy Soviet military industry beyond the Urals even if the initial Blitzkrieg plan had succeeded.

In his book the Blitzkrieg Legend, German historian Karl-Heinz Frieser also shares Adam Tooze ' ( in his work The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy ), Overy's and Naveh's concerns over the myth of the blitzkrieg economic and strategy.

Liddell Hart also stated that study of Sherman's campaigns had contributed significantly to his own " theory of strategy and tactics in mechanized warfare ", which had in turn influenced Heinz Guderian's doctrine of Blitzkrieg and Rommel's use of tanks during the Second World War.

The innovative German Major ( later General ) Heinz Guderian developed the motorised part of this strategy as the head of one of the Truppenamt groups and may have incorporated Fuller's and Liddell Hart's ideas to amplify the groundbreaking Blitzkrieg effect that was seen used by Germany against Poland in 1939 and later against France in 1940.

While no more robust than regular infantry moving on foot, its increased speed became decisive in the Blitzkrieg strategy because it could follow the panzer forces and defend its flanks.

Hitler used the same strategy with his Blitzkrieg.

Similar to the Sudden Strike games Blitzkrieg focuses on battles rather than real-time strategy aspects like base building.

The name of the play is taken from Blitzkrieg, the German strategy of " Lightning War " during World War II, and like the Blitzkrieg, is a concentration of force at high speed to break through to the opposition line, and proceed without regard to the flanks.

The penetration attack goes straight through the enemy's flanks and, once through, each flank turns and attacks the opponent's rear, similar to the Blitzkrieg strategy.

While Germany, and to some degree the Western Allies, adopted Blitzkrieg ideas, they were not much used by the Red Army which developed its armoured warfare doctrine based on deep operations.

There are three official expansions of the original Blitzkrieg to date, all three developed by La Plata Studios ( Germany ), in collaboration with Nival Interactive, the developer of the original Blitzkrieg game.

* Blitzkrieg: Operation " North ", developed by Dark Fox.

While the Wehrmacht developed from this the operations named Blitzkrieg, in the USSR this led to the creation of the Cavalry Mechanised Groups during the Second World War, and the Operational maneuver groups during the Cold War.

The invasion was typical of newly developed Blitzkrieg tactics used by the German army which utilised armoured elements under the support of the Luftwaffe.