{"id":91353,"date":"2024-12-31T02:00:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T07:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=91353"},"modified":"2024-09-04T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T22:20:02","slug":"britzkrieg-did-british-tactics-help-create-blitzkrieg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/12\/31\/britzkrieg-did-british-tactics-help-create-blitzkrieg\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Britzkrieg&#8221; &#8211; Did British Tactics Help Create <em>Blitzkrieg<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y0XAgSHYFvM?si=AeKXltvUFcnKV5DR\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 30 Aug 2024<\/p>\n<p>Where did <em>Blitzkrieg<\/em>, the tactics that enabled Germany to conquer most of Europe in the first years of WW II come from?<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the 1920s and into the &#8217;30s, the German Army was forbidden from developing tanks or experimenting with armoured warfare, but in the same period, the British Army was at the forefront of mechanization and the use of armour on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>In this film, we will look at how British tacticians like JFC Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart developed a new and revolutionary way of warfighting and how these principles were taken up and used to devastating effect by the German Army in 1939 and 1940.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Intro<br \/>\n02:14 | A New Form of Warfare<br \/>\n04:12 | Plan 1919<br \/>\n07:54 | New Technology &#8211; Better Tanks<br \/>\n14:01 | Trials and Tribulations<br \/>\n17:10 | Partly There<br \/>\n20:12 | Fuller&#8217;s Children<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published 30 Aug 2024 Where did Blitzkrieg, the tactics that enabled Germany to conquer most of Europe in the first years of WW II come from? Throughout the 1920s and into the &#8217;30s, the German Army was forbidden from developing tanks or experimenting with armoured warfare, but in the same period, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1118,7,5,246,230],"tags":[991,140,174,1197,1298],"class_list":["post-91353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-military","category-ww1","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-design","tag-innovation","tag-interwarperiod","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-nLr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91354,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91353\/revisions\/91354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}