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The German Armored Army, Military Intelligence Service, Special Series No. 2, August 10, 1942
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Table of Contents

FOREWORD

SECTION I.  BASIC PRINCIPLES

1.  Decisive Character of Tank Action  
2.  The Tank As a Strategic Rather Than Tactical Weapon
3.  However, the German Theorists Perceived That the Armored Arm Would Succeed Only If It Cooperate with Other Arms
4.  The Organization of the New Mechanized Division Did Not Bring the Leaders of the Third Reich to Give Up the Conception of a "Nation in Arms"

SECTION II.  THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ART OF WAR EFFECTED BY THE ARMORED AND MOTORIZED ARM

SECTION III.  THE ARMORED ARM IN ACTION

1.  The High Command
2.  Duties of the Various Echelons
3.  General Characteristics of the Action of the Armored Army in Battle
4.  Combat of the Armored Division
5.  Defense against the Armored Division

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