71 - German Center of Gravity - Battle of France Part VII

<p>This is the fourth part of our CoG analysis for the Battle of France series.</p> <p>We discuss the Center of Gravity for Germany.  An interesting case as the Strategic Center of Gravity was unable to defeat France, so the Wehrmacht developed a highly risky operational Center of Gravity to defeat France in just 46 days - something that they could not achieve in all of WW1.</p> <ul> <li>How did the German's temporally dislocate themselves at the Strategic level?</li> <li>How could they avoid the nightmare of a two front war?</li> <li>Would they succumb to the siren song of the Schlieffin Plan and a quick win with all the risk that entails?</li> </ul> <p>Thank you to the British Army's Lessons Exploitation Centre for the assistance with getting the resources for this podcast series.</p> <p>Check out the <a href= "https://theprinciplesofwar.com/podcast/?pk_campaign=libsyn&pk_kwd=libsyn">show notes</a> for the podcast for all of the information that we cover in this episode as well as the images and other details that didn't make it into the podcast.</p> <p>Join the conversation on <a href= "https://twitter.com/surprisepodcast">Twitter</a> or <a href= "https://www.facebook.com/Principlesofwar/">Facebook.</a></p>