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blitzkrieg (plural blitzkriegs)

Tanks, motor vehicles, and aircraft are essential in bringing a blitzkrieg operation into success.

1. A fast military offensive, typically involving a large and highly mobile tank force with air support.
   • 1968, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, “Sympathy for the Devil”, in Beggars Banquet, performed by Rolling Stones:

     I rode a tank, held a general's rank / When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank

   • 2000 April 26, Walter A. McDougall, “Who Were We in Vietnam?”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, retrieved 3 Aug. 2008:

     But news that the North Vietnamese had launched an invasion more akin to the blitzkrieg of Poland than to a Maoist "people's war," and had overrun my old base camp 30 miles up Thunder Road from Saigon, turned my heart to lead.

2. (figurative) Sudden activity; a flurry.
   • 2025 January 2, Simon Montlake, “Electing a speaker is first test for GOP with razor-thin control of House”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎, archived from the original on 27 March 2025:

     President-elect Donald Trump has promised a blitzkrieg of executive actions and legislation after he takes office Jan. 20.

   • 2025 April 7, Simon Montlake, Caitlin Babcock, Ali Martin, Cameron Pugh, Jingnan Peng, “Is the anti-Trump ‘resistance’ starting to find its voice again?”, in The Christian Science Monitor‎, archived from the original on 27 April 2025:

     Many Democrats have felt hopeless during a blitzkrieg of a presidency that is testing the limits of constitutional authority, including over the deportations of migrants, halting of congressionally approved spending, and punishment of universities accused of not protecting the rights of Jews during intense spells of pro-Palestinian activism.

派生語

• blitz
• clickskrieg
• glitzkrieg

参考

• sitzkrieg

Further reading

• blitzkrieg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia