GERMAN REPORT SERIES: NIGHT COMBAT

\n\nGERMAN REPORT SERIES: NIGHT COMBAT\n\nGERMAN REPORT SERIES: NIGHT COMBAT\n\nThe reader of a pre-war German Army operation manual, upon reaching to the chapter heading \u201CNight Combat\u201D, found that the subject was covered very succinctly and somewhat superficially. The content failed to reveal the tremendous importance that night combat and night movements were to assume in modern warfare.\n\nDuring two world wars, night and other periods of poor visibility, such as fog and snowstorms or rainstorms, gradually came to be considered the ideal time for action. Interference from the air reduces fighting and paralysed movements in daylight hours, with the result that the space between the front and the most remote corner of the rear areas was often empty and deserted. During the hours of darkness combat and movements resumed with new intensity. After a while, the German soldier considered this mole like existence as normal, but the conclusion that should have been drawn fr;