30 days war

/his/ is vehemently anti-German, so before this thread is taken over I'll just say this
GERMAN SUPREMACY

>>2774444
ok, but what do you mean by that? Superior morale and fighting spirit, superior machines, superior leadership?

>>2774439
The Allies, on a very broad, reductionist level, expected a future war with Germany to be a lot like WW1. Relatively slow movements, dominated by artillery, breakthroughs, when achieved, leading to only limited advances, and be decided with a long term industrial application.

Germany ultimately invented a new paradigm of fighting, or at least revived an older one to the point of being viable again, depending on your views as to what Blitzkrieg is. Regardless, the results were very effective. When they made a breakthrough at Sedan, they were able to rush in with mechanized and completely armored forces and chew up the rear echelon, trapping almost a third of the Allied forces in a pocket, and then swallowing them. What was left to fend them off in Fall Rot didn't have a chance.

Ultimately, they won because they were more mobile and quick to react, having practiced for that kind of warfare, whereas the western Allies had to play catch-up for several years.

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>>2774439
French didn't even have radios and their command structure was whack, they spent all their time preparing for another ww1.

>>2774574
Good summary. Also worht pointing out that most of the german command had the same expectations for the war that the allies did and thought it would be Great War 2.0

Hitler overrode them in one of the few examples of him actually making sound tactical choices