Description:Изображения: черно-белые фото, цветные рисункиIf fast tanks can operate in this [aggressive striking] manner, we will greatly aid in restoring mobility to warfare: in keeping with the doctrine of operating on the flanks and rear and through the gaps, and in forcing the enemy to make detachments to guard his lines of communications . . . and bases, we would so considerably weaken his main forces in battle that a quicker decision will be reached. Lt-Col Adna R. Chaffee (later first commanding general of the US Armored Force), writing as executive officer of the Experimental Mechanised Force, 1932.