Patterns of Conflict
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OODA WIKI Edition
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Now, France 1940, key points, I’m sorry. Germans had fewer forces than Allies did before phase 1, yet we call them the “hordes,” [10:00] when you look in the history. They actually had fewer forces. Not only that, we had about the same number of tanks that they did.
But they knew how to use them and we didn’t. And when I was a kid I remember that, before Germans made their push on France, because of the Maginot Line, I was about, what, 13 then. And in fact they said the best army in Europe was France. Well, that was until they went through the Ardennes. They weren’t any army, they were done.
The Germans had more forces than the Allies before phase two, the second phase here, because they threw the British out and conquered half the French Army, so then they could use all these, more of the double envelopments. Their first phase single envelopment, the next one double envelopment scheme. But once again, it’s penetration/isolation. So you can generate not only penetration, multiple penetrations, multiple isolations, because the multi-thrust operation, see, to generate these many non-cooperative centers of gravity and then scarf up the debris.