#9 - Chieftain on Tanks

This one is also available as video with us sitting in front of a Flak Tower in Vienna and showing various Tank Models as overlay and also showing quotes for some of the sources and important corrections here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-Z2eV72iv4

Link to Chieftain’s Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp4j9Y9L6jie44iZroCb99A

A talk with Nicholas “Chieftain” Moran the military historian for Wargaming America / World of tanks and me. (Note: this was a private meeting). We talk about Shermans, Panzer IIIs, Panzer IVs, US Tank Crew Losses in World War 2, Guderian, Doyle, Liddell Hart, dust signature, tank bites, logistics, tactics, operations, Patton, intelligence, North Africa, Sicily, Normandy, Iraq, Zombies and a few other topics that crossed our minds. All in front of a Flak Tower (Command Version) in Vienna, Austria.

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» SOURCES «

Herrera, Geoffrey L.: Inventing the Railroad and Rifle Revolution: Information, Military Innovation and the Rise of Germany. In: The Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 27, June 2004, p. 243-271

Army Air Forces Statistical Digest, World War II

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a542518.pdf

Operation Think Tank – Question on Influence of Liddell Hart & Guderian (timestamped)

https://youtu.be/_oLY4FOrnjc?t=461

Pöhlmann, Markus: Der Panzer und die Mechanisierung des Krieges: Eine deutsche Geschichte 1890 bis 1945 (Zeitalter der Weltkriege) 

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Citino, Robert M.: The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943

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Corum, James S.: The Roots of Blitzkrieg. Hans von Seeckt and German Military Reform

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Markus Pöhlmann

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Frieser, Karl-Heinz: The Blitzkrieg Legend

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Estes, Kenneth W.: Marines Under Armor: The Marine Corps and the Armored Fighting Vehicle, 1916-2000

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