The role and place of tanks in contemporary military conflicts and wars.

From: Military Thought | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: Maryshin, V.I. | Copyright information

The appearance of tanks is caused by objective changes in forms and ways of conducting combat operations during World War I. With the concentration of a great quantity of automatic small arms at the defense of the enemy, it became practically impossible for the advancing troops to overcome the defense and combat operations grew into position fighting. It was necessary to create new, well-protected, autonomous mobile means of destruction, capable of overcoming such a defense.

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