Also I think that “Blitzkrieg” employed by Hitler’s Army, was as if it were a massive army. And to understand Hitler’s ability to strike hard strike fast and, leave no building standing, no people resisting, allowed the “victory through terror” to gain much needed territory as a buffer so that the “great war machine” could stand up and begin it’s industry.
I think that we might think of our being attacked on September 11th as a type of “Blitzkrieg” after shorter attacks on foreign soil. The enemy was able to penetrate our soil and advance a coordinated fast attack that would destroy our infrastructure and cause a collapse. This would lead to our weakening especially overseas where the enemy could then strengthen their defenses etc. and go after other country’s infrastructure, England, and Spain for instance.
I think the difference here might be the enemies ability to wait, continue to plant the seeds of anarchy and division. And also they are not squeezed into one state, one country, or one government, they are spread throughout a whole region, in fact the whole world and among ordinary citizens. This is what Israel and our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan deal with every day. Fast attacks, and to fight back they must penetrate into civilian populations where the enemy hopes that civilians will be killed because that is another tool in their arsenal.
This one will be harder to defeat, it will take longer, and I think it would be important for them that the west continue to bicker with each other, and continue to be divided, so that they can regroup and strike again. One of the weaknesses of the Blitzkrieg was the fact that it had too much territory to cover once it’s enemies began to fortify and fight back. It seems that with this enemy borders mean nothing as it has no state.
I also think that it is very important to realize that Hitler was a figurehead for a for more important goal of many more people than he. To concentrate our thoughts and eyes on Hitler would be like thinking that once Osama Bin Laden is gone, the war would be over. It is obvious to many that with Hitler dead, his philosophy is not and that is why, I think that Islam-ism if even more dangerous. It does not seem to need one human to represent it, it seems to have a life of it’s own.
