[jmacusa]

Actually the Germans used a watered down version of the Schlieffen Plan in 1940. But it's truly astounding that the British and the French fell for it. It was one of the hallmarks of blitzkrieg in that after having outflanked a fortified position with their tanks, isolating it, moving on and leaving the position to artillery , air attack by the Stukas and the infantry moving up, the harder an encircled position fought the worse it's situation became. Even more astounding , as I pointed out, three times in some thirty years the German Army used the cover of the Ardennes Forest to outflank Allied Armies, with tanks in 1940 replacing the jingling trot of German cavalry in 1914.

[dfwgator]

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity.” - Patton

[Reily]

I think you already said this!