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Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg
(
German
, "lightning war") is an
anglicised
term, describing a method of warfare, whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a
dense concentration
of
armoured
and
motorized
or
mechanized infantry
formations with
close air support
, breaks through the opponent's line of defense by
short, fast, powerful attacks
and then dislocates the defenders, using speed and surprise to encircle them. Through the employment of
combined arms
in
maneuver warfare
, blitzkrieg attempts to unbalance the enemy by making it difficult for it to respond to the continuously changing front and defeating it in a decisive ("
battle of annihilation
").
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