what the german army had together with a bold strategy for their attacks with the stuka dive bomber and use of radios to combined air, armor and infantry attacks. blitzkrieg was a state of mind intended to prevent a repetition of the static warfare on the western front in the first world war. the allies were further hampered, as they had been in 1914, by their determination to respect the neutrality of belgium, unless or until the germans violated it. and by the commitment of the french army to its elaborate system ofrm system of defenses,s weeks turned into months, it began to seem to many that hitler would never attack. and of course, it became the aim of french and british policy not to provoke them into attacking. thus, the royal air force was limited to dropping propaganda leaflets over germany, rather than bombs. when it was suggested to the british secretary of state for air, sir howard kingsley wood, that the royal air force should bomb the black forest, which was then thought to contain ammunition dumps, he replied indignantly in the negative saying, that is private property. t