Mechanized Force
On Doctrine, Fuller and Liddell Hart
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For a single POD to change all this and more (all those other advances) a political and social revolution would be required. A revolution of merit and ability over wealth and class. What candidates for revolutionary change are open to us in this time frame?
On Doctrine, Fuller and Liddell Hart
Most informative it is too.For the most part, the British Army
took the advent of mechanization
seriously, especially during the period just
following the end of World War One and
the period just before the outbreak of
World War Two. Even during the
worldwide depression of the 1930s, the
British Army continued to develop its
mechanized doctrine. In short, this essay
will examine Britain’s mechanization
doctrine during the inter-war period; and
in doing so, it will compare their
doctrinal developments to those of their
Allies and Germany during this period.
This is the first stumbling block to an arms and technology build up. A Neo-Keynesian approach that targeted the money pumped into the economy is hard to justify when the Keynesian approach itself was new and slow to catch on.At the end of 1928 the finances of
most nations were at a breaking
point. By the time the worldwide effects
of the “Wall Street Crash” were being
felt by developed nations, the world had
begun to enter the era of the Great
Depression. As the depression hit, most
nations began making massive cuts to
their defence budgets. The relative
peace of the last ten years had deluded
nations into believing that they would
never again have to fight a war on the
scale of the Great War.
wiki/Birch_Gun
wiki/Experimental_Mechanised_Force
If the old boys on their hunting and polo horses were silenced by reform then this early work would have progressed a long way by 1939.The (August 1927) force was composed of:
- reconnaissance group of the Royal Tank Corps (RTC) with tankettes and armoured cars
- battalion of the RTC, with 48 Vickers Medium Mark I tanks
- motorised machine gun battalion
- motorised field artillery brigade (regiment)
- battery of self-propelled Birch Guns
- motorised field company of Royal Engineers
For a single POD to change all this and more (all those other advances) a political and social revolution would be required. A revolution of merit and ability over wealth and class. What candidates for revolutionary change are open to us in this time frame?
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