Essay On The Blitzkrieg

Throughout the history of man, all wars were fought by men and the equipment they utilized. Since its introduction on the European battlefields of World War One, “armored units” or “panzers” have broken the deadlock of trench warfare and forced other ground-based elements to adapt to and utilize its implementation. It wasn’t until the Second World War that Panzers were fully utilized on the battlefield, primarily by the German Wehrmacht and SS. The Germans themselves were some of the fiercest combatants of modern warfare and implemented the use of panzers with specialized infantry resulting in combined arms operations. The main reason armor is highly efficient is mainly because of its strengths and abilities during der angriff or offensive operation ranging from; carrying out movement under heavy fire (unlike infantry), employing accurate, armor-destroying fire …show more content…
During the fall of Poland as well as France, the use of combined arms between artillery, air power, infantry, and armor led to an overwhelming success. The main ideals behind the use of the blitz was to soften enemy fortifications or targets of interest by applying air raids mainly composed of HE-111’s medium bombers or Ju-88/87’s for precision dive-bombing or tank hunting in order to make way for the ground units for the initial seizer (Wray3). And for the final stages of the attack would be to roll in a coordinated ground attack immediately after the initial air raid in order to catch the weakened opposing force in a disoriented and paralyzed state. And with the most advanced pieces of military hardware in the world, the German Panzerkampfwagens were able to make easy work of the inferior post-World War One hardware that the French and Polish still