(July 3, 2016 at 6:06 pm)abaris Wrote:(July 3, 2016 at 6:02 pm)Minimalist Wrote: The biggest mistake an army can make is to prepare to fight the last war rather than the next war.
Which was one of the major advantages the German had at the start of WWII. Their old military elites gone and the necessity to rethink their whole strategy.
They're whole military establishment was gone, but lots of veterans from the first phase of the 20th C. European Civil War were still around, like Admiral Lutjens.
