Temporalités ()
De la “drôle de guerre” à la “guerre-éclair”
Abstract
The role of the time factor and the question of temporalities are a particularly apt analyser of the short Franco-German war of 1939-1940. The rapid French defeat can in fact mainly be explained by the discordance and the dissonance of temporalities as the driving force. The opposition between military doctrines and strategies seen from a temporal point of view originates in the common and shared experience of the Great War as a long “war of attrition” to be avoided at all costs. But the lessons learned took radically different directions: offensive vs. defensive. This explanation must however be completed by a set of elements of different sorts: organisational or even contingent factors, which nevertheless had the effect of amplifying the temporalities when conducting a military operation (acceleration vs delay).
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