(November 15, 2015 at 3:11 pm)abaris Wrote:(November 15, 2015 at 9:53 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: From 1939 to early 1943, the most important element German military successes against enemies of comparable or superior strengths can almost all be pinned down to the ability to get inside the enemy's OODA loop.
Most importantly, they could keep up the charade of basically repeating the Schlieffen-Plan. Noone on the allied side expected them to to break through the ardennes. They considered them impassable for tanks and didn't take into account the work the German pioneers did. Nonetheless, veterans spoke about the biggest traffic jam in history and air raids could have done away with the German deployment easily.
It was not a charade until about March, 1940. Circumstances really conspired to force geman hands and made them adopt a better plan than the one they preferred and was wedded to.
