Shouldn't the correct term be relative manouver warfare?
The blitz would be an example of a static line faced with an overwhelming stress at a point whereas air land battle deals with a fluid force and the force you place on it as it is in motion.
So the blitz is a special case where the defenders speed=0 and the relative motion at the point off attack is at it's maximum and therefore most effective and in that case, with pressure along the French front, the French are too distracted to react in time.
In airland battle, the defensive line retreats and attacks are conducted along the enemy advance. What is happening then is that the defender is manouvering with the attacker to decrease the relative motion thus avoiding overwhelming force at a point.
Since the Russians depended on hordes of tanks, communication gets more difficult the faster you advance. The russian's speed becomes it's distraction. Nato, using smaller high tech units reacts faster ie manouvering faster. So in a sense nato is blitzing because it's relative manouver at a given point is faster than the soviet's.
[This message has been edited by iggi (edited 01-31-2001).]