Oh, and by the way... did anyone else notice that not once in this whole article does the word "tank" appear?
Do you suppose that our military planners might be overlooking something?
The shopping list in the sidebar story includes: Aircraft, artillery (155 mm and 8-in howitzer), bombsights, canisters for gas masks, gas masks for horses, gas masks for civilians, AA searchlights, anti-tank guns, bombs, and fuses. No tanks.
I read an Eisenhower biography recently and learned that he and Patton, as junior officers, once disassembled an entire tank to see what made it tick. If I remember right they were interested in the use of armored force but were not encouraged by the higher brass.