The Wacko genius of armoured warfare: in the wake of World War I, British Army officer J.F.C. "Boney" Fuller advocated innovative tank tactics, but only Germany's Wehrmacht listened to him.(John Frederick Charles Fuller)(Biography)

Military History | August 1, 2009| | Copyright

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Major General John Frederick Charles Fuller was, during World War I and through the early 1930s, the British army's tank warfare go-to guy. He was the man who taught the Wehrrnacht how to blitzkrieg, George Patton how to rumble and the Israelis how to kill Syrians. Yet he was an absolute un-Pattonlike, don't-mistake-me-for-Bernard-Montgomery, I'm-no-Heinz-Guderian staff officer. The quintessential egghead, "Boney" Fuller was a tiny man with a modicum of actual combat experience whose bearing, manner and attitude were fully represented by his ...

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