French Army's Tank Force and Armoured Warfare in the Great War
Taylor & Francis
The scale of the French tanks\u2019 failure in their first engagement (1917) lead to rumours that the Artillerie Sp\u00E9ciale was in danger of being disbanded, yet by the end of the war it was the world\u2019s largest and most advanced tank force. This work examines this important facet of the French army\u2019s performance in the First World War, arguing that the AS fought as intelligently as possible given the immature state of the technology available. The successful French armoured effort outlined in this study highlights a level of military effectiveness that has hitherto been little acknowledged. > Recent scholarship has challenged the assumption that military commanders during the First World War were inflexible, backward-looking and unwilling to exploit new technologies. Instead a very different picture is now emerging of armies desperately looking to a wide range of often untested and immature scientific and technological innovations to help break the deadlock of the Wes.
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