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The invasion
of Poland gave rise to modern warfare that was literally powered by the
internal combustion engine. Blitzkrieg
(German, "lightning war" listen 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. Through constant motion, the blitzkrieg attempts to keep
its enemy off-balance, making it difficult to respond effectively at any given
point before the front has already moved on.
During the
interwar period, aircraft and tank technologies matured and were combined with
systematic application of the German tactics of infiltration and bypassing of
enemy strong points. When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Western journalists
adopted the term blitzkrieg to describe this form of armoured warfare
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Source: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzkrieg
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