[RinaseaofDs]

The Germans SHOULD be proud of Rommel. He invented tank warfare as we still know it today. One of my best friends on earth was a tank platoon commander in Desert Storm.

He told me that Rommel was the father of all of it, and that for the purely tank part of it, little has changed. Patton added coordinated air support.

When tanks got super fast in comparison, tactics changed too, but not far afield from what Rommel had first conceived.

[oldvirginian]

It was Heinz Guderian (Hurrying Heinz) who wrote the German book on motorised warfare in his book Atchung Panzer! (Danger Panzer!).

Rommel wrote the book on the use of infantry in his book Infantry At War.
He was also known for combining infantry and armor better than his contemporaries.
Except for Patton.

[Covenantor]

Didn't see this post before. The German who developed both Blitzkrieg and Panzer doctrine was actually General Heinz Guderian...literally wrote the book. Rommel used what he learned and adapted those tactics to suit North Africa and the lack fuel, ammo and parts denied by Allies killing the supply ships thanks to the code breaker boffins at Bletchley Park. Some quotes:

You hit somebody with your fist and not with your fingers spread.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

It is sometimes tougher to fight my superiors than the French.

Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

It is decisive to completely destroy Warsaw.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.