I'm not too keen on the Eastern Front of the first World War, but with the rather level fighting ground there, why were more mechanized units not used here?
I say "more" but as I said, I'm not too informed (if anyone can point me in the right direction for more material that would be great!). Just thinking that, the original 'tanks' showed up in the Western theater late in the war as a means to break the trench stalemate. Why not faster movement over ground that is suited to it, such as that of Eastern Europe?
This may have led to an earlier interest in such instruments of war on a wider scale (as opposed to being concentrated in Nazi Germany). Of course, were this the case... Nazi Germany may well never have existed.
Just wondering what you all thought of the reasons behind this failure, other than the fact that trucks and such at the time weren't really sophisticated enough to bounce around on a battlefield.
I say "more" but as I said, I'm not too informed (if anyone can point me in the right direction for more material that would be great!). Just thinking that, the original 'tanks' showed up in the Western theater late in the war as a means to break the trench stalemate. Why not faster movement over ground that is suited to it, such as that of Eastern Europe?
This may have led to an earlier interest in such instruments of war on a wider scale (as opposed to being concentrated in Nazi Germany). Of course, were this the case... Nazi Germany may well never have existed.
Just wondering what you all thought of the reasons behind this failure, other than the fact that trucks and such at the time weren't really sophisticated enough to bounce around on a battlefield.