Evolution of blitzkrieg

[Kagemusha]

The Doctrine for advanced defence novadays atleat here is mobile defence.Since troops march Motorized and Mechanized fast today and the total Firepower of supporting weapon systems is so devastating the smart defender doesnt stay in place and instead decides when to fight and where.

[AggonyDuck]

The Doctrine for advanced defence novadays atleat here is mobile defence.Since troops march Motorized and Mechanized fast today and the total Firepower of supporting weapon systems is so devastating the smart defender doesnt stay in place and instead decides when to fight and where.

This additionally stresses the need for air superiority today. Without air superiority to protect troop movements those mechanized formations will not be able to actually keep themselves mobile.

[Brenus]

So the next move will be to neutralize the air cover. It was done by the Egyptians in 1973, when the SAM protected the tanks from the Israelis Air Force. If the Egyptians would have stick to this tactic, perhaps the outcome of the war would have change. Not sure, because the Sharon’s offensive was a master movement…
Don’t over estimate air power… At the end, it is up to the army to finish the fight.

[Kagemusha]

Yep.I think Brenus has a point there.Ofcourse the land forces need SAM´s to provide cover when on movement. Actually when we look at the reacent conflicts the defender has always had very outdated weapon systems for protecting its troops from Air attacks.Ofcourse if the attacker has absolute Air supremacy the defender is mostly immobilized or will commit suicide moving its troops like in reacent Gulf Wars. But a smart defender who wants to win battles tryes always to have a local superiority over the enemy if he wants to stop the attacker becouse in most cases the attacker has superiority in overall numbers so the attacking side has potential to succeed in their Operation. So the modern defender needs to hide his forces properly when staying in put.provide enough weapon systems to protect his forces while in movement and try to provide locall superiority in both Air and Land when attacking.