Who were some opponents of early tank development? I'm trying to do research on the subject, and of course there's the story of Churchill needing to steal money to fund the landship committee and stuff, but who exactly opposed it and why? Searching terms like "anti tank" or "tank opponents" just turns up anti-tank warfare.
>>64629942Maybe look up Pro-Horse factions during the change, people who owned horses, had vested interests in horse, suppliers of stabling, tack and feed, horse breeders, horse numbers over time, popularity of horse racing vs motor car racing, etc? Bringing in a new technology often means having to fight the people who have lived with or make a living off the technology (in this case horse) to be replaced.
>>64630000I get that part, I just need names.Nice digits btw.
Whem will russia deploy these on the battlefield in ukraine?
>>64629942https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knowles_Herr
>>64629942>Searching termsWell there's your problem. Get off google and get your nose in books.
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>>64630043Thank you.>>64630232>just go look for random books in the libraryOh, yeah, sure. I'll go look in the 'history' section. It must be between "Book about D-Day #1' and 'Book about Holocaust #2".
>>64629942https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Budyonny
>>64630232>Insists on forcing others to read books>Doesn't specify which books. This is why Death Traps doesn't go away.
>>64634312>>Doesn't specify which books.If I knew the books I'd name them. But alas, I'm not a tank autist so I don't know what those are.I *do* recognize the problem though: anon is looking for information which the internet doesn't have. The internet is great for stuff that's old enough to be out of copyright, or stuff that's new and trendy. It fucking sucks for anything not in either of those two categories. The information anon wants will be tied up in books. You can use google to identify them--that's something Google is actually good for.
>>64630008From what I have read, it was rarely a few named individuals, most of the opposition was from large vested interest groups. There was even pressure from unions and guilds of mechanics of the time, who didnt want just anyone to learn the mysteries of motorised vehicles - to be an engineer was a high status and well paying career at the beginning of the century - so as the need for masses of armoured cars and tanks pushed for hordes of 'commoners' to replace the few high status mechanics, the mechanics of the time pushed back, often refusing to train up the masses in the skills needed.
>>64637028A book that explains some of the pushback is Iron Fist by Byran Perret. It has a chapter on how various organisations were resistant to the mechanisation of British forces - Palmerston calling Cowan's weaponised steam engine barbaric in 1854, the rejection of various armoured car designs by a horse entrenched General Staff, the competition from railway and naval manufacturing for the existing engineers, to the resistance of the engineers and mechanics themselves of their elite trade becoming common knowledge and less well paid.
>>64631661>>64634424Unironically this is where wikipedia is pretty helpful, as long as you can find an article that gets you started their citations will lead you to decent sources. I did this alot in college, professors would say dont use wikipedia, but then id just go to wikipedia and use their sources. If OP is in college do that and use your schools online books and articles resources to actually find the shit
>>64634424>information which the internet doesn't havei'm just gonna tell you, this is increasingly rare. there are multiple organizations dedicated entirely just to digitizing books and providing them on the internet often for free, because they know that's a way to not just archive the information so it doesn't get lost to library fires, but so even more people all across the globe can have access to it.anon has already identified his problem: anon isn't sure how to word a search term that can accurately point him to what he wants without the search engine confusing his wording for more common use cases for those terms.
