Later attempts: Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan

Abstract

By 1939, however, military technology had developed sufficiently extensively to make it perfectly possible for wars to be won quickly. The improvements to the tank and to the aeroplane now enabled an invading army not merely to advance rapidly but to advance rapidly while at the same time fighting the enemy. Mechanization of the infantry and the logistics units to the extent to which it was actually undertaken, was a further step in the same direction, and a very valuable one too.