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Defence in Depth, with reference to British preperations for Sealion
- zeteo 16y agoDefense in depth was actually invented by the Germans in World War One: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_warfare#World_War_I:_trench_defensive_systems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_warfare#World_War_I:_tre... As were the concepts of Schwerpunkt and penetration. These are clearly described in, e.g., Rommel's book about his WW1 infantry operations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_Attacks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_Attacks).
- arethuza 16y agoFortunately, that defense was never required - 70 years to the day since the famous speech: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_many_to_so_few http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_was_so_much_owed_by_so_ma...