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Alaric Searle teaches modern and contemporary history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich

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Intended as an introductory text for the college-level reader this work certainly succeeds on that level, as Searle provides a good overview regarding how most of the high-profile tank theorists related to each other during the 1919-1939 period, before surveying the armored battles of World War II that remain the iconic images of what tank warfare is supposed to look like.

Where Searle tends to fall down is that he has remarkably little to say about tank theory in the U.S. Army, which one would consider rather relevant. I would at least think that the process that led to emergence of the M4 "Sherman" would be important, considering what an icon that machine is. Nor will you find commentary on the U.S. military's operational revolution of the post-Vietnam era, which one might think significant, seeing as "Air-Land" Battle was the doctrinal foundation of the wars waged in Iraq. I would have at least expected a couple of pages each to be devoted to Jacob Devers (the first substantive commander of the U.S. Armored Force) or Donn Starry, the responsible figure behind the doctrinal revolution of the 1970s, and a notable historian of armored warfare in his own right.… (més)
 
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Shrike58 | Oct 2, 2019 |
While this very nice collection of scholarly essays on the introduction of the tank tends, as one might expect, to concentrate on various aspects relating to the British experience of the Great War, the most interesting essays are the ones dealing with why the tank did not fit into German notions of the conduct of war until very late in the day. Much of this had to do with the sense that "armor" did not mesh with German concepts of mobility and will to action, not helped by a procurement system that was quite dysfunctional by the end of the war (and the sheer lack of resources).… (més)
 
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