The Command We Must Fund
Source ↗
👁 0
💬 0
The Army's Armored Force was born in July 1940, a few weeks after France fell. No act of Congress created it, and no budget line funded it. The Chief of Staff ordered it into being, took the tanks from the infantry and the cavalry, and placed them under a single commander. The money came later, once the force had demonstrated what it could do with what it already had. The idea had been waiting since 1928. The force did not wait for its appropriation.Last week, I argued that the Autonomous Warfar
Comments (0)