
How Britain Invented, Then Ignored, Blitzkrieg
From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 12/13/2019

From Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Published 12/13/2019
In 1917, a brilliant British officer developed a way to use an emerging military technology: the tank. The British army promptly squandered the idea – but the Germans did not. Blitzkrieg, the devastating advance of German tanks across Europe in 1940, was invented by the British.This is a common…