(Variation of German experiences during WWII)
• Emphasize intelligence, reconnaissance (air and ground) and set up screen of forward outposts and patrols to report on adversary activity and warn of any impending or actual incursions.
• Deploy, disperse, and frequently redeploy/redisperse reconnaissance and mobile antitank/infantry/armored teams together with artillery in region behind screen so that they can mask dispositions as well as move inconspicuously/quickly to focus and shift local main efforts against adversary thrusts.
• Place armored teams, as mobile reserve, in echelon behind recce, anti-tank/infantry/armor and artillery so that they can easily focus effort and quickly move in to decapitate any local breakthrough—or push off for a blitz counterstroke.
• Employ air and fast moving mobile/armored reconnaissance teams to determine direction/strength of thrusts and to continuously harass by repeated delaying actions and hit-and-run attacks in order to slow momentum and erode cohesion of blitz attack.
• Inconspicuously move in with high-speed mobile anti-tank/infantry/armored teams together with air and artillery support to strengthen favorable sectors. Hit adversary thrusts and resupply efforts with ambuscades and with repeated sudden/sharp flank and rear counter-thrusts to channel as well as drain-away momentum and break up cohesion of blitz thrusts.
• Concentrate swift armored combat forces (held in reserve) and use with air to rapidly drive a shallow and/or deep flank counterstroke in order to swing in behind and roll-up blitz offensive in detail (counterstroke launched while adversary is moving forward).
• Smash blitz offensive by inconspicuously using fast-tempo/fluidity-of-action and cohesion of counter-blitz combat teams as basis for shifting of forces and quick focus of air and ground effort to throttle momentum, shatter cohesion, and envelop blitz in order to destroy adversary’s capacity to resist.
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