[PzLdr]

That’s not the worst of it. The Brits consistently spread their armor out all over creation. Their armored divisions are never concentrated, their brigades are seldom within supporting distance if each other. The brigade seems to be their basic maneuver unit. “Penny Packets”, they called them. You can see it on today’s map.

That allowed the Germans, for much of the next two years, to defeat numerically superior British tank forces by attacking them in detail. Or as someone who would probably have been just as home on a tank as he was on a horse, they “got there fust’est with the mostest”.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Or as someone who would probably have been just as home on a tank as he was on a horse, they “got there fust’est with the mostest”.

Would that be N.B. Forrest?

[CougarGA7]

The amazing thing was how slow the British were to realize their flaws in the use of armor. This should have been readily apparent when in the battle for France, despite the fact that they (Britain and France) had numeric and qualitative superiority to the German armor forces, they were picked apart piecemeal. They still see tanks as a supporting cast for the infantry while the German's see it as the fist to produce the gains that the infantry will fill and hold.

Guess that's why I can't think of any British armor commanders.