Myślenie i działanie operacyjne w niemieckich siłach zbrojnych

• Autorzy: Wiatr, M.

Warianty tytułu

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Operational Thinking and Activities in German Armed Forces

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

The development of operational thinking in German armed forces is connected with Field Marshall H, von Moltke, commonly recognised as the modern operations creator. Since his time it has been said about forces, time and space as operational factors determining all operational activities. German operational thinking, the approach to operation concept and thus the way to wage war has been greatly influenced by Germany's central location in Europe and resulting from it subjective feeling of encircling and threat from stronger neighbours. In such a situation, German military men tended to develop principles that would balance these inconveniences. Therefore German operational thinking concentrated on concepts anabling weaker in quantity German Forces to achieve swiftly operational developments and so to defeat enemy successively and to face their allies with an accomplished fact. Therefore an essential role was played by manoeuvres on external lines, the speed of operations, gravity centre and destruction strategy. The analysis of German ideas to wage operations allows to find the following centre idea of operating German forces in time and space: fast incursion into enemy group due to forces concentration in gravity centre and to use the area being aware of the risk, then going to the flanks, most of all to the rears, cutting connection lines, closing the encirclement and finally destroying the enemy.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

niemieckie siły zbrojne; myślenie operacyjne; działanie operacyjne

EN

German armed forces; operational tacticts; operational activity

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe AON
• Rocznik: 2001
• Tom: nr 2(43)
• Strony: 151-166

Twórcy

autor

Wiatr, M.