Comments on: The first man to comprehend and use tanks for full effectiveness was a Scot https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: McChuck https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/comment-page-1/#comment-2787441 McChuck Mon, 27 May 2019 12:17:01 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44909#comment-2787441 Actually, I believe the first commander to truly understand the role of the tank in warfare, the inventor of modern combined arms tactics in 1918, was an Australian: John Monash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL0JHPD0uOk

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/comment-page-1/#comment-2787261 Kirk Sun, 26 May 2019 22:31:00 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44909#comment-2787261 There was also this tendency on the part of Allied troops to report every single German tank as a Tiger or a Panther; if you tot up all the reported heavy tanks, both destroyed and spotted, you got a number that was like three or four times their actual production…

Just like “all the German MGs are Spandaus…”. Uhmm. Yeah… Spandau arsenal quit producing machineguns with the Maxim. Schmeisser had little to nothing to do with either the MP38 or the MP40, although his name was all over the magazines…

Perceptions of the combatants are the last damn thing you want to use as historical reference points. Just trust me on that…

]]> By: Cassander https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/comment-page-1/#comment-2787255 Cassander Sun, 26 May 2019 21:49:02 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44909#comment-2787255 Spoken like someone who didn’t realize how unreliable the German heavy tanks were in practice.

]]> By: Kirk https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/comment-page-1/#comment-2787194 Kirk Sun, 26 May 2019 16:00:11 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44909#comment-2787194 I think it’s also a good question to ask about whether or not he was really “all that” in Spain, as well. The Soviets did like to pick their “front men” that they would run in the background, which was a common bit of tradecraft for them, going back to the Cheka under the Tsar.

After all, who got the blame for Gavrilo Princip? The Serbs, and nary a word gets mentioned that the Black Hand was a catspaw of the Cheka. Even a lot of Serbs are unaware of the facts, and think that Princip and his fellow assassins were creatures of the Serbian irredentists, not being aware that the irredentists themselves were creatures of the Cheka, with an overseer/paymaster who worked out of the Russian Embassy in Belgrade…

]]> By: Ezra https://www.isegoria.net/2019/05/the-first-man-to-comprehend-and-use-tanks-for-full-effectiveness-was-a-scot/comment-page-1/#comment-2787192 Ezra Sun, 26 May 2019 15:54:05 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=44909#comment-2787192 Probably just a suicide. Homosexuals are very prone to killing themselves.

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