PPT Slide
Behind again, the U.S. begins to research better tank designs and massed armor tactics. As a result of poor planning and limited vision, the U.S. enters WWII with inferior tank designs.
1939: The Germans act on the
pre-war reformers and achieve
dramatic successes with massed
light tank led combined-arms
teams in Poland and France to
infiltrate then collapse enemy
armies by encirclements. Called
“Blitzkrieg” or lightning war,
their light tanks are fast,
cross-country mobile, well armored
and have effective main gun systems.