blitzkrieg????

Question

hey guys im doing a research paper on blitzkrieg in world war 2 and i know that Germany used Blitzkrieg but do you guys know if there were any countries that used Blitzkrieg as a war tactic?
and if so, could you tell me the country or countries that they used the blitz on.
please
thank you<3

Answer 1

I've read that when the Allies broke out of Normandy, they (Patton in particular) used blitzkrieg tactics, without referring to them that way.

Answer 2

Germany may have introduced the concept of Blitzkrieg, but the Allies perfected the concept. Notable examples include the Normandy breakout by the Americans, and on a much larger scale, Operation Bagration by the Soviet Union (known by the Germans as "the destruction of Army Group Center.")
But probably the best example of a Blitzkreig, and also the least well known, was Operation August Storm in 1945, where the Red Army killed or captured about 1 million Japanese soldiers and overran an area larger than Western Europe in 2 weeks.

Answer 3

The term blitzkrieg is German for "lightning war". As a military tactic, it means using a fast-moving, overwhelming amount of force to quickly take control of an area and keep any defenders off-balance by quickly moving on to a new location before they can organize any resistance. Nazi Germany used the tactic to great effect in the early stages of World War 2, but it backfired when they invaded the USSR. The Soviets' defense strategy (which was ultimately successful) was to trade space for time, taking advantage of the USSR's vast size to organize forces far ahead (sometimes hundreds of miles ahead) of the advancing blitzkrieg, so that by the time the Germans arrived, an effective resistance would already be in place. The Germans took large amounts of territory, but the Soviets were able to turn the tables when the German supply lines became overextended.

Answer 4

I don't think there were any others in World War 2. I think the term Blitzkrieg was uniquely applied to Germany. I don't have source -- just my recollection of history.

Answer 5

Blitzkrieg involves destroying the enemy's front-line defences and then exploiting the resulting gap with highly mobile and typically armored forces. The units exploiting the gap pour into the enemy's rear areas, destroying rear-echelon units such as artillery, command units and logistics units. Remaining front-line forces are then surrounded and cut off from command and resupply.

Germany used it first against Poland, then against the French and British in France, against the British in North Africa, and then once again against the USSR.

Other nations used it as well whenever they could, having learned from the Germans. The earlier poster referred to the Allies using it against Germany during the breakout from Normandy. The USSR used it very well during their famous counter-offensive at Stalingrad.

Blitzkrieg--not to be confused with "the Blitz", which referred to the bombing of London during the Battle of Britain--has received a lot of press, but it was actually fairly rarely that it was executed well. And, as writer John Keegan points out in his excellent book on WWII, its success requires some cooperation from your enemy. This statement was especially true later in WWII when ordinary infantry divisions were equipped with effective anti-tank capabilities.

"Cooperation" from the enemy is making major tactical or strategic mistakes. In the case of Poland, it was trying to fight Germany at all with an excessively weak military. In the case of the battle of France, it was the allies placing the weight of their forces on their left while assuming that the Germans couldn't successfully attack through the Ardennes. Also, the French had better tanks than the Germans, but they made the mistake of spreading them out thinly among their infantry units instead of concentrating them in armored formations. For the Germans at Normandy, it was sending more and more forces westward into a trap that was rapidly closing around them from the South.

Answer 6

Lightning war meant mobile breakthroughs by massed armor with air support.... Patton's 3rd Army was the best model on the Allied side during their breakout at Avranche at Normandy. The US shock and awe in the gulf war during the early '90s is another example.

Answer 7

When the germans launched thier blitzkrieg.The effect was devastating to the defending forces.Blitz(german for lightning) was a rapid movement of armor and infantry and airiel bombardment.Krieg(german for war)Hence lightning war.
Probably the allies used these same tactics against the germans.As it had proved so effective.
No nation has successfully used this type of warfare since Worl War11
The US has used massive airiel bombardment against foes.Without the accompanying ground forces.Does'nt gain territory,only leaves masses of rubble

Answer 8

all of the tactics of "blitzkrieg" were first delineated in a book on modern armored tactics written by charles de gaulle and they were later utilized by the germans to the very fullest extent possible utilizing "shock tactics" against unarmed populations to clutter an army's material advances,co-ordinating air and ground attacks in solid communication within all attacking units to achieve distraction,ruses,and a misdirection of opposing forces to react to feint,flanking movements and border crossings!!strafing roads with refugees upon them on the idea that evry wounded person occupies and disables three others to care for them!!the united states in the sole and competant inheritor of this "nazi tactic of war" and whether we have used it for well or ill ;i leave history to judge!!we are now attacking not even 8th RATE countries ;but countries with no armies,air forces ,NAVIES,FLEETS or tanks at all......how GREAT DOES THAT MAKE US??

Answer 9

Try the American bombings in Southeast Asia during Vietnam.

Answer 10

We did a pretty good job on Iraq ITS just intense Bombing 24/7and rapid troop advancement