1916 debut
A type is born.
Cambrai, 1940, Kursk, Sinai 1973, Korea 1950 -- dated uses, not a campaign school.
Combined arms is the repeated historical sentence.
Principles
FT layout
A century's silhouette.
1973 missile shock
A staff-college date.
MBT
Cold War "one main type" idea. Read as a 1916-present (as a type) concept in From the Somme to every later armoured front.
ATGM
Missiles that recast 1973 staff talk -- named, not instructed. Not a present instruction.
Steps
- Flers-Courcelette
1916-09-15: Mark I debut.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Cambrai
1917-11: First massed British tank attack; gains then lost.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- FT and 1918 battles
1918: Turret layout; combined arms.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Doctrine fights
1930s: Fuller, Guderian, Tukhachevsky.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Early WWII
1939-41: The type's political shock in Europe.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
- Kursk caption
1943: Density and myth.
A dated type-history beat of Tank (1916-present (as a type)). No employment, arming, or build steps.
Diagrams
From Flers-Courcelette (1916-09-15) through Kursk caption (1943) to "Dead again" headlines (2000s-20s) in From the Somme to every later armoured front. One sequence, not a staff overlay.
Ernest Swinton (British theorist/officer) and Walter Gordon Wilson (Engineer) sit at the centre of most English accounts; Israel Tal and Gotthard Heinrici / etc. -- skip; use a Korean correct the usual photograph.
Limits
Source limits
Figures such as "not a war -- a system; human cost is in the wars that used it" stay in ranges because records are incomplete, political, or still closed. Who "invented" it? is answered as a band.
No how-to
Tank is systems history and employment as a past fact. This page does not teach manufacturing, arming, aiming, or attack procedures.
Memory bias
English-language fame of Tank and local memory in From the Somme to every later armoured front are not the same map. Gotthard Heinrici / etc. -- skip; use a Korean is often the correction the first photograph drops.
Manoeuvre stories are descriptions of past wars.
This is not an employment guide.