Thread 17973243

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Anonymous 9/4/2025, 5:27:21 AM No.17973243 >>17973819 >>17974011 >>17974144 >>17976000 >>17976091 >>17976113

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Robert Citino dislikes the term blitzkrieg, insisting on calling it Bewegungskrieg, which means "War of Movement".

What part of the term "lightning war" makes him think that it implies "stationary"? His issue with blitzkreig seems to be that it's too "hollywood" a term, not that it's inaccurate.

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 11:37:46 AM No.17973819

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>>17973243 (OP)
some fag wants to make a name for himself what to do?
I know lets revise history

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 1:42:06 PM No.17974011 >>17974034 >>17974058

>>17973243 (OP)
I guess it's because the term was mostly coined by allied media rather than german command. But it's retarded because everyone knows what it refers to

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 2:00:17 PM No.17974034

>>17974011
This.

"Blitzkreig" was just a slang used by the allies.
The real doctrine was Auftragstaktik and Bewegungskrieg.

It's the same with the term "nazi".
It was a slur, similar to "commie".
Funny howcwe refrain from using commie when discussing ww2 because it feels nonserious. We don't often refer to Zhukovs as the "commie leadership", or the 62th guard division at Stalingrad as the "commie army".

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 2:13:22 PM No.17974058

>>17974011
This it was an Albion meme.
The British didn't bravely run away, the Blitzkrieg made them do it.

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:11:20 PM No.17974144

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>>17973243 (OP)

No one in Germany called it Blitzkrieg, it wasn't how they described their own strategies. Blitzkrieg was a term coined by British propaganda to describe what they saw as Germany's new tactics where they conflated multiple separate concepts into one.

The problem is that Bewegungskrieg is basically fucking unpronounceable and unspellable for an English speaker so Blitzkrieg stuck.

Anonymous 9/4/2025, 3:34:25 PM No.17974183

>Germans lack creativity so much that the most itnernationally famous German word was invented by Brits

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 3:14:43 AM No.17975600

Citino is literally the only one who thinks this.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 6:22:38 AM No.17976000

>>17973243 (OP)
Modern historians hate when things sound cool.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:28:57 AM No.17976091

>>17973243 (OP)
>What part of the term "lightning war" makes him think that it implies "stationary"?
Is that what he says or is this what you just assume he does?

War of movement is how German military called it. Blitzkrieg is how American journalists iirc. called it.

Anonymous 9/5/2025, 7:46:06 AM No.17976113

>>17973243 (OP)
Wtf hes from Cleveland. I live near there