Blitzkrieg, meaning 'Lightning War', was the method of offensive warfare responsible for Nazi Germany’s military successes, in the early years of the Second World War to avoid a long war, in the first phase of World War 2 in Europe. Germany's strategy was to defeat its opponents in a series of short campaigns.
One long standing strategic flaw is the failure to learn from the mistakes of the past. In the end, Germany committed similar mistakes to those it committed in France in 1918, believing the mere accumulation of tactical victories would ensure strategic success. Such thinking actually worked at the beginning of the war, when the enemies of Germany did not have the initiative, their territory was small enough to be fully occupied, they had not yet fully mobilized their industry, and when German tactics were overwhelmingly better than theirs.
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