A continuidade dos conceitos de guerra de manobra no século XX e sua aplicabilidade em grandes conflitos

Abstract

In the search for increasing its defense capacity, countries always seek the improvement of their Armed Forces. That is a matter both of investment in the modernization of their weapons and equipment through research, development and purchase of new technology; and of optimization of their combat doctrines, trying to suit them to the new realities showed to the States. In that matter, the countries always seek for absorbing the past lessons from success experiences, adapting them to the new challenges that will come. In that subject, fits the Maneuver Warfare (MW). This way, this work will produce an analysis from two armies whose amazing victories (the Wehrmacht and its Blitzkrieg in the WWII – particularly in the west front, with the Operations in France and in Crete; and the US Army in the Operation Desert Storm), searching to evaluate if the concepts of MW, that even though had presented themselves throughout the whole history of warfare, only became fully possible by the late 30’s; were important for those armies to succeed, and if half a century after its implementation, those concepts still apply.