The German Armored Army
The German Armored Army
Military Intelligence Service | 1942 | ISBN: N/A | English | 40 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Special Series No. 2
Military Intelligence Service | 1942 | ISBN: N/A | English | 40 pages | PDF | 24 MB
Special Series No. 2
Contents: I. BASIC PRINCIPLES: 1. Decisive Character of Tank Action; 2. The Tank As a Strategic Rather Than Tactical Weapon; 3. However, the German Theorists Perceived That the Armored Arm Would Succeed Only If It Cooperated with Other Arms; 4. The Organization of the New Mechanized Division Did Not Bring the Leaders of the Third Reich to Give Up the Conception of a "Nation in Arms". II. THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ART OF WAR EFFECTED BY THE ARMORED AND MOTORIZED ARM. III. THE ARMORED ARM IN ACTION: 1. The High Command; 2. Duties of the Various Echelons; 3. General Characteristics of the Action of the Armored Army in Battle; 4. Combat of the Armored Division; 5. Defense against the Armored Division.