[Carriage Hill]

I’m thinking that the Dutch didn’t have any good intel, back then, to see it coming.

[jmacusa]

Could be but German newsreels of the day were seen across Western Europe and the Germans weren't shy about showing off their latest military hardware. You make a valid point however. As goes the old saw about when a new war breaks out, the generals look to the books on how to fight the previous one. I don't think the French and the English armies, at the time the two biggest and best equipped in the West had any real clue as to what the Germans had done in debuting the idea of ‘’combined arms’’ warfare, i.e using tanks, mobile artillery,motorized assault infantry and tactical air support in a massive, fast-moving, one-two punch. Got to hand it to the Krauts, if war were a literary exercise only, Germany, with it's ''blitzkreig'' would still have the number one best seller of all time.