alternatehistory.com

The first use of the Tank in offensive operations was in the Battle of Flers–Courcelette in September 1916, as part of the Somme offensive. At the time, Haig ordered that the forty-nine avaliable machines be used to break the German lines. He placed this order in spite of the demands of the French Government overrule him, so that a large number of Tanks could be massed in a bid to smash the German lines and break the deadlock in the Western Front.

My question is simple. What if the French Government had been successful and the number of Tanks behind the lines had been built up until the Spring of 1917. Could a massed attack of British and French Tanks have smashed the German lines and broke the stalemate of the Western Front?

Could it have won the Entente the war?
Top