seize headquarters, disrupt command and supply, and spread panic among front-line
troops. The war ended before this bold plan for 1919 could be tested; but twenty years
later the German army achieved the intended effect, first in Poland and then in
France, using additional refinements such as air-ground cooperation. The photo
graph on the right shows German troops practicing Blitzkrieg tactics on maneuvers
late in the 1930s.
Heinz Guderian, Die Panzewaffe (Stuttgart: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1943), Abbil
dungen 7, 12, and 41.