{"id":42855,"date":"2018-04-19T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42855"},"modified":"2018-03-29T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-29T13:18:16","slug":"blitzkrieg-what-most-people-get-wrong-myth-vs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/04\/19\/blitzkrieg-what-most-people-get-wrong-myth-vs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; &#8211; What most people get Wrong &#8211; Myth vs &#8220;Reality&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LCNw2e-Zehw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Military History Visualized<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 18 Aug 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; is probably the most wrongly used word when it comes to Military History. Its buzzword effect is widely known. The question is what was &#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; actually and is it used &#8220;correctly&#8221; at all? Additionally, the question if &#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; was something unique to the Wehrmacht will be answered?<\/p>\n<p>Military History Visualized provides a series of short narrative and visual presentations like documentaries based on academic literature or sometimes primary sources. Videos are intended as introduction to military history, but also contain a lot of details for history buffs. Since the aim is to keep the episodes short and comprehensive some details are often cut. <\/p>\n<p>\u00bb SOURCES \u00ab <\/p>\n<p>Citino, Robert M.: <em>The German Way of War<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Hughes, Daniel J.: &#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221;, in: <em>Brassey&#8217;s Encyclopedia of Land Forces and Warfare<\/em>, p. 155-162 <\/p>\n<p>Ong, Weichong: &#8220;Blitzkrieg: Revolution or Evolution?&#8221;, in: <em>RUSI<\/em> December 2017 \u2013 Vol. 152 No. 6, p. 82-87 <\/p>\n<p>Harris, J.P.: &#8220;The Myth of Blitzkrieg&#8221;, in <em>War in History<\/em> 1995 2 (3), p. 335-352 <\/p>\n<p>Frieser, Karl-Heinz: <em>The Blitzkrieg Legend<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Frieser, Karl-Heinz: &#8220;The war in the West, 1939-1940: an unplanned Blitzkrieg&#8221;. In: <em>Cambridge History of the Second World War<\/em>, Volume I: p. 287-314<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military History Visualized Published on 18 Aug 2017 &#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; is probably the most wrongly used word when it comes to Military History. Its buzzword effect is widely known. The question is what was &#8220;Blitzkrieg&#8221; actually and is it used &#8220;correctly&#8221; at all? 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