![]() I'm going to fast-forward you over a lot of twists and turns in the development, right up to World War II. KELLY: And this was when, 1916 that they first built it? And there, they had these monsters with the tracks on the outside rather than sheltered under armor or anything like that. And the British were probably just about the first, really, to get the tank going. And Churchill, working then in the government, put as much pressure as he could to help develop it. And so that's where the idea of an armored tank emerged - and it was because it looked almost like a water tank, but bolted together - as a project. KELLY: So paint us a picture of the situation that the first early tanks were designed for back in the First World War.īEEVOR: The massacre of soldiers pouring out of trenches and going across no man's land was so horrific that everybody was trying to think of an alternative. Historian Antony Beevor has written about the tank and personally knows his way around one from his time as an officer in the British army. Well, militaries have been trying to improve on tanks' design and effectiveness ever since. ![]() The idea was that an armored all-terrain vehicle could break the stalemate of trench warfare. With word this week that German and American tanks are headed to Ukraine, we wanted to take a moment to consider the role that tanks have played on the battlefields of Europe - the extent to which they have or have not been a game-changer. ![]()
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