Patton was still busy selling the very IDEA of armor. Rommel showed the world how to use it, but our Army’s career trajectory was either infantry or cavalry. Patton actually risked his career even pursuing the idea of a tank being something more than an infantry support vehicle.
The irony was, once Rommel had demonstrated what was possible, Patton became indispensible.
Patton eventually trumped Rommel’s achievement, and improved it by showing the world how to coordinate air power with tank attack.
Armor was a pretty new concept.
It’s funny, now that I think about it. Doolittle got courtmarshalled for all the fuss he put up insisting you could use air to bomb ships. Patton undergoes nearly the same fate over tanks.
The power of orthodoxy.
And look at what they did to Jesus for ruffling the feathers of the Jews.
Rommel was not responsible for what you suggest here. The man who conceived of the blitzkreig tactic was Heinz Wilhelm Guderian. Probably the least well known, but certainly still highly studied military tactitians of all time. His strategies were developed before the war and were directly responsible for the length of it.
I think hitler had actually tasked him to come up with a strategy to defeat the trench warfare defense. Lookup “Achtung Panzer” for more information. Note, his works also included air support along with the armor and combined arms.