Tank Warfare--How Military Tech Took a Quantum Leap at the Battle of Cambrai (1917)

Published: Nov. 17, 2020, 7:10 a.m.

The British developed the tank in response to the trench warfare of World War I. In 1914, a British army colonel named Ernest Swinton and William Hankey, secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defense, championed the idea of an armored vehicle with...