Scariest looking tank ever.
Scariest looking tank ever.
“Military-industrial shadows”?
Kind of like Iran’s nuclear weapons?
The French, British and Russians all had better tanks than the Germans in 1939- 1941.
The allies also had a vastly superior number of tanks.
So the “ban” did work. The allies just forgot about superior tactics, training and leadership.
And we had JEEPEXs and GOLFCARTEXs.
We had the National Training Center and a top-notch Opposing Force.
And we went through those “Battle-hardened desert rats” of the Iraqi Army like they weren’t even there.
Now, they train Tankers at the Infantry School.
Hooooaaaaahhhhh!
If Germany had had the economic and industrial rescources of the United States it would rule the world today. Imagine the effect 20,000 Tigers backed by 50,000 aircraft would have had on the Barbarossa campaign
Instead, the German leadership stupidly took on the world with a tiny fraction of the funds and materiel needed, and ended up wasting one the world’s greatest armed forces ever fielded. A catastrophe engineered by soul-less bureaucrats that destroyed one of the most advanced societies on earth.
Nations, as America is discovering, pay dearly for inept, narcissistic, dictatorial leadership.
The Americans under Henry Knox experimented with combined arms- Heavy and Light Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery and Engineers, plus sufficient organic medical and transportation assets to handle at least immediate short-term needs, known as the Legion of the United States as far back as 1791-1792.
