> conformity and following orders Citation needed. MCDP 1 "Warfighting" is basically a tl;dr of Clausewitz. What the USMC called "Mission tactics" ca. 1989 wa

> conformity and following orders Citation needed. MCDP 1 "Warfighting" is basically a tl;dr of Clausewitz. What the USMC called "Mission tactics" ca. 1989 was, by the Prussians, called "Auftragstaktik" over a century earlier. as to "conformity", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildung Finally, Germany needed to invade Russia for the oil. (eg Maikop, Grozny, Baku, and fields to their southeast) No oil, no Blitz. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Blue )