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For Laffargue's contribution to the development of German doctrine see Lupfer, The Dynamics of Doctrine, pp. 38-39. I am indebted to James Hogue for the notes of his meeting with General Andre Laffargue during the summer of 1987. 93 Consequently, while the French studied the war seriously throughout the interwar period, they did not broaden their study beyond a narrow focus on a few carefully selected battles that had occurred in 1918. Admittedly, French experiences in the war reinforced the proclivities of a school system that emphasized tight control over maneuver.
Doughty, Seeds of Disaster, p. 128. For Laffargue's contribution to the development of German doctrine see Lupfer, The Dynamics of Doctrine, pp. 38-39. I am indebted to James Hogue for the notes of his meeting with General Andre Laffargue during the summer of 1987. 93 Consequently, while the French studied the war seriously throughout the interwar period, they did not broaden their study beyond a narrow focus on a few carefully selected battles that had occurred in 1918. Admittedly, French experiences in the war reinforced the proclivities of a school system that emphasized tight control over maneuver.
179. ARMORED WARFARE 19 tury; yet their simplicity can be deceptive. Few officers in the period possessed the technical background to judge the technological questions which they confronted. 43 Even more important, the modern battlefield had undergone a drastic alteration between 1914 and 1918 and few lessons of that experience were yet clear. And so innovation took place in response to the tactical revolution that had taken place on the battlefields of the last war as a crucial determinant but in an atmosphere where the experts were still developing the possible lessons of that conflict.