The Development Of The Doctrine Of Employment Of The Armed Wagon

Just ended the first world war the defeated ones they were destroyed, and the winners were exhausted both from the moral point of view and from the financial point of view. For this in the following months immediately to the war the enormous armies that had fought were demobilized and the expenses for the armaments were drastically reduced. Despite the a little favorable climate, some theoretical ones, English, kept above all on studying the armed wagon more as system of weapons that as technical entity.

Particularly these studies were brought ahead from the colonel Fuller and from the captain Liddell Hart in Great Britain, from the colonels Estienne and De Gaulle in France.
This whole intellectual fervor, that brought also to a theoretical development of the extremely advanced employment of the wagons, it didn't practically have comparisons in the military doctrine of States Maggiori British and French, that always considered the armed wagon as a weapon of support of the infantry or the cavalry, while in the United States practically the studies on the wagons arrested him up to 1936, apart some developed projects as initiative deprived by Christie, that the modern system of suspensions of the wheels developed tracks of great diameter, adopted above all by the Soviets in the wagons BT and from the English from the second world war in then.

In Italy the doctrine of employment of the armed (and, therefore, the relative development) wagons was conditioned from the geographical particularities of the peninsula, particularly the mountainous (on which the greatest part of the battles of the first world war you/they were developed) ground pushed to the development of light wagons so much that the first valid middle wagon appeared only after the beginning of the second world war. To deepen the matter is postponed to the specific (Vehicles armored Italian) voice.