| Language: | English | Abstract: | The First World War was a war of massive armies, trenches, mud, static warfare and also a war of innovations and development. During the First World War and the Isonzo front have been used new tactics of warfare, new weapons and new approaches to command. On the Isonzo front, the largest battleground on Slovenian territory, the Italians delivered (carried out) eleven offensives, but otherwise the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, with the help from Germany, only the twelfth offensive, which pushed the Italians through to the Piave River. They used a new tactic, by some authors called the %Blitzkrieg% tactic. The Germans already in the year 1915 started to develop new tactics and weapons, which would enter some dynamic to the position war. They founded a developmental assault unit (Sturmabteilung), which with experimenting developed the tactics of infiltration. This tactic, the Germans successfully used several times in the First World War. Infiltration tactics had effects on the new war doctrine of the German army before World War II. It also had a direct impact on the tactics of warfare, known as the "Blitzkrieg", Lightning War. All the principles of warfare from the German doctrine then are today found in the most of modern military doctrines. | Keywords: | first world war, Isonzo front, German army, central forces, infiltration tactics, attack units, alpine corps, mobile warfare, Blitzkrieg, lightning war military doctrine, military tactics, stormtrooper tactics |
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