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Given the number of WWI threads lately, dealing with a CP victory or early Entente victory, I thought I'd ask what would happen to the tank ()and to a lesser extent, trench warfare) in an early Entente victory.

Supposing the Entente wins before the front becomes static and before it becomes necessary to develop tanks to break through fortifications. Tanks are not invented in 1916 because the war is already over. What is the effect (aside from upsetting MacCaulay) Will tanks as we know them be invented at all? If tanks are made for a colonial war in Africa or a defense against a resurgent Germany, will they have the same basic form and shape? Will the name even be the same?

What say you?
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