Alaric Searle is Professor of History at University of Potsdam, Germany, and Academic Director, Head of Research and Deputy Commander at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.

Praise for previous edition:With this concise new study of armored warfare, historian Alaric Searle (Univ. of Salford) has made a timely and important contribution to the cyclical debate about the nature, evolution, and ongoing utility of armored fighting vehicles … Armoured Warfare is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of military technology in modern warfare.

• List of PhotographsList of MapsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The new warfare: The First World War, 1914-182. Innovation versus stagnation: The interwar period, 1919-393. Blitzkrieg: German successes and Russian failures, 1939-414. Quality versus mass: The Soviet-German War, 1941-455. Difficult terrain: Deserts, mountains, hedgerows, jungles, 1940-456. The Cold War (I): Armour in Korea, Indo-China and Vietnam7. The Cold War (II): The central European battlefield8. Post-colonial conventional conflict, 1947-20219. The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-201110. Iraq and the Gulf wars, 1980-201111. Hybrid mechanized and anti-armour war, 2011-2612. The ‘political history’ of the tankConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Alaric Searle is Professor of History at University of Potsdam, Germany, and Academic Director, Head of Research and Deputy Commander at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.

Praise for previous edition:With this concise new study of armored warfare, historian Alaric Searle (Univ. of Salford) has made a timely and important contribution to the cyclical debate about the nature, evolution, and ongoing utility of armored fighting vehicles … Armoured Warfare is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of military technology in modern warfare.

• List of PhotographsList of MapsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The new warfare: The First World War, 1914-182. Innovation versus stagnation: The interwar period, 1919-393. Blitzkrieg: German successes and Russian failures, 1939-414. Quality versus mass: The Soviet-German War, 1941-455. Difficult terrain: Deserts, mountains, hedgerows, jungles, 1940-456. The Cold War (I): Armour in Korea, Indo-China and Vietnam7. The Cold War (II): The central European battlefield8. Post-colonial conventional conflict, 1947-20219. The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-201110. Iraq and the Gulf wars, 1980-201111. Hybrid mechanized and anti-armour war, 2011-2612. The ‘political history’ of the tankConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Alaric Searle is Professor of History at University of Potsdam, Germany, and Academic Director, Head of Research and Deputy Commander at the Bundeswehr Centre for Military History and Social Sciences, Potsdam, Germany.

Praise for previous edition:With this concise new study of armored warfare, historian Alaric Searle (Univ. of Salford) has made a timely and important contribution to the cyclical debate about the nature, evolution, and ongoing utility of armored fighting vehicles … Armoured Warfare is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in the evolution of military technology in modern warfare.

• List of PhotographsList of MapsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1. The new warfare: The First World War, 1914-182. Innovation versus stagnation: The interwar period, 1919-393. Blitzkrieg: German successes and Russian failures, 1939-414. Quality versus mass: The Soviet-German War, 1941-455. Difficult terrain: Deserts, mountains, hedgerows, jungles, 1940-456. The Cold War (I): Armour in Korea, Indo-China and Vietnam7. The Cold War (II): The central European battlefield8. Post-colonial conventional conflict, 1947-20219. The Arab-Israeli Wars, 1948-201110. Iraq and the Gulf wars, 1980-201111. Hybrid mechanized and anti-armour war, 2011-2612. The ‘political history’ of the tankConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex