Boyd noted, at the start of World War II, the French and British were using the same outmoded strategies that had caused horrendous bloodbaths during World War I. The Germans, on the other hand, had developed the Blitzkrieg, and they sliced through the allied lines in a couple of weeks. After considerable research, Boyd concluded that a small set of principles formed the foundation for the German victory and that they were primarily cultural, that is, they dealt with the behavior of people in groups. These “principles of the Blitzkrieg” do not give instructions on how to deploy tanks on the
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