One tank to rule them all
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.3 • 882 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2017
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
War nerds love tanks. The battlefield behemoths drove onto the scene in the early days of World War I, replaced the cavalry and became synonymous with war. But which one is the best? This week on the show, author Steven Zaloga walks us through the ins and outs of armored vehicles. He explains how the French Renault doesn’t get enough credit, how the Sherman came to dominate Europe and how people always forget about the Russians. It’s everything you ever wanted to know about tanks but were afraid to ask on War College this week. How have wire guided missiles changed the game? What’s reactive armor and why does it explode? And what, if any, is the point of tanks in low intensity warfare?
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| 0:20.0 | The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. What's the important element in Tank Warfare? Is it actually just the hardware or is the |
| 0:26.8 | training and tactics or is it the human element? On today's show, we get back to basics. |
| 0:37.0 | Tanks. Everything you wanted to know, but forgot to ask. |
| 0:45.0 | You're listening to know War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing |
| 0:57.8 | on the stories behind the front lines. Hello and welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt. With us today is Stephen Zaloga. |
| 1:15.6 | Mr Zaloga is a senior analyst at the Teal Group, an expert on military tech and the author |
| 1:20.8 | of more books than I could count when I looked him up on Amazon. He's here with and the |
| 1:25.0 | Tanc and the author of more books than I could count when I looked him up on Amazon. |
| 1:24.0 | He's here with us today to talk about those impressive battlefield behemoths, |
| 1:28.0 | The Tank. |
| 1:30.0 | Stephen, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:32.0 | Nice being here. |
| 1:33.4 | So how many books have you written? |
| 1:36.2 | Quite honestly, I'm not sure. |
| 1:38.3 | It's probably in the neighborhood of 200. |
| 1:40.6 | Part of the issue is that some of them are compilations of other smaller books. |
| 1:47.0 | And also quite honestly, I do other publications for various other agencies and things, so it's kind of hard to keep track of precise |
| 1:55.1 | numbers. And what percentage of that do you think is just about tanks? Probably more |
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