http://cognitive-edge.com/blog/lessons- ... m-history/
It was rather easy to get hold of the "Report of the committee on the lessons of the Great War" as it is in print by The Naval & Military Press. Even more intriguing is the description of the German reports:
So far I searched in vain for any exemplar of these records. Has any of the gentlemen read them and knows where to get hold of them? Any help much appreciated.The Germans transferred the Military History branch of the General Staff into the Ministry of the Interior (as a way around provisions in the Treaty of Versailles) and set them to work. They published their first analysis in 1919, just after the army was reconstituted, and distributed it throughout the army. This was rapidly followed by reports distributed in 1921 and 1922. These reports concluded that methods developed over the course of the war in assault squad tactics were correct and could be improved by more embedded firepower and transportation. This approach continued to be developed and became the Blitzkrieg of World War II. The German report used specific events as a means of focusing on what worked and what didn’t.