IIRC, the 1870 Prussians were taking a leaf from the book of US Grant and Billy Sherman, perhaps with a crib from Nathan Bedford Forrest ("fustest with the mostest", although he denied ever saying that.) AFAIK, railroad maneuver warfare was invented in the Civil War.
IIRC, the 1870 Prussians were taking a leaf from the book of US Grant and Billy Sherman, perhaps with a crib from Nathan Bedford Forrest ("fustest with the mostest", although he denied ever saying that.) AFAIK, railroad maneuver warfare was invented in the Civil War.
The link back from panzers to jägers is interesting, was't aware of that.