By Robert Stewart Cameron
Dr. Robert Cameron’s Mobility, surprise, and Firepower: The Emergence of the U.S. Army’s Armor department, 1917–1945 captures the multifaceted improvement of the Armored strength from its inauspicious beginnings in global battle I to its absolutely mature, operational prestige on the shut of worldwide conflict II. via research of the Armor Branch’s early years, it offers an exceptional case examine in strength transformation. the advance of recent armor doctrines and businesses to use rising applied sciences, options, and missions is the center of this paintings.
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71–73; Watson, Chief of Staff, pp. 21–22; Green, Thomas, and Roots, Ordnance Department, p. 48. The annual reports of succeeding secretaries of war also reveal the weakened state of the Army and the impact of underfunding. 43 44 20 Mobility, Shock, and Firepower Tank Corps FT–17s being readied for rail transport sentiment, Congress did not assign military spending a high priority. The Senate’s rejection of the Versailles Treaty also eliminated the need to retain a large army capable of rapid deployment to Europe to enforce actions taken by the League of Nations.
17, p. 15. Rockenbach, like every other officer promoted during the war years, reverted to his prewar rank following the war’s end. 50 Rockenbach, “Tanks,” pp. 59–60; Steadman, “Evolution of the Tank,” p. 10. 48 49 22 Mobility, Shock, and Firepower FT–17s being loaded onto truck carriers in the 1920s This new administrative arrangement originated from Rockenbach’s earlier recommendations for a postwar Tank Corps structure. It differed from Rockenbach’s intent only in its limited scale and the permanent subordination of the tank to the Infantry.
A tank that could 65 Icks, “Four Decades of Mechanization,” p. 337; Allen, “Resume of Tank Development,” 27 Oct 29, pp. 3–4. 66 Icks, “Four Decades of Mechanization,” pp. 337–38; Allen, “Resume of Tank Development,” 27 Oct 29, pp. 4–5. 67 Allen, “Resume of Tank Development,” 27 Oct 29, pp. 2–3; George F. Hofmann, “A Yankee Inventor and the Military Establishment: The Christie Tank Controversy,” Military Affairs XXXIX, no. 1 (February 1975): 9–10. 28 Mobility, Shock, and Firepower A Mark VIII and M1917s execute an attack on a defended trench during training in the 1920s.