Help me find books about tanks

[Perfection]

I'm in desperate need of good books on tanks and tank warfare, modern armored combat and mechanized infantry. If any y'all have good info I'd be super obliged.

 

[Phrossack]

I'm in desperate need of good books on tanks and tank warfare, modern armored combat and mechanized infantry. If any y'all have good info I'd be super obliged.

The Great Book of Tanks by David Miller. It covers only the histories of different models of tanks, and does so in only a page or so per tank with lots of pictures, but I grew up reading it.

 

[Silurian]

Jane's Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles gives basic info.

 

[Perfection]

Cool, I will definitely look into these. I'm wondering also if anyone knows of any book specifically about armored combat in the era of urban warfare and IEDs and the like.

 

[Flying Pig]

You're unlikely to get one, simply because there hasn't actually been a war like Afghanistan or the later stages of Iraq featuring tanks on both sides.

 

[Perfection]

No, not armored-to-armored warfare, but modern warfare involving MBTs, IFVs, APCs, etc. Asymmetrical warfare situations are completely of relevance.

 

[Flying Pig]

Suggest contacting the Joint Services Command and Staff College (what was Staff College in my day) to see if they can advise?

 

[Cutlass]

Has anyone written a book for the general public about the battlefield experiences of the past 10 years?

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I'm in desperate need of good books on tanks and tank warfare, modern armored combat and mechanized infantry. If any y'all have good info I'd be super obliged.

Do you want technical specs, battlefield tactics, or strategy?

 

[AnthonyBoscia]

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[cav scout]

Start with ATP 3-20.15

Hit me up if you have any questions.

 

[Flying Pig]

Has anyone written a book for the general public about the battlefield experiences of the past 10 years?

There are good personal memoirs - the best that I have read are both by officers; Capt. Patrick Hennessy GG wrote The Junior Officers' Reading Club and Lt. Patrick Bury R IRISH wrote Callsign Hades. There must be books of Staff College interest out there, but I haven't come across them.

 

[Perfection]

Start with ATP 3-20.15

Hit me up if you have any questions.

Cool starting looking through these, probably will pick up ATTP 3-21.71

 

[Perfection]

Jane's Pocket Book of Modern Tanks and Armored Fighting Vehicles gives basic info.

It would be cool to get a more recent version of this book.

Thunder Run by LA Times correspondent Dave Zucchino is a frank description of the drive into Baghdad by 2 BDE/3 ID, which Zucchino was imbedded with at the time. It is detailed on what armored warfare is like in an urban battlefield.

This looks like a very cool book, will be picking it up.

Do you want technical specs, battlefield tactics, or strategy?

All of that and more. My biggest questions are what is the history of armored warfare? How are armored fighting vehicles used today? And what drives the design decisions in armored fighting vehicles?

 

[cav scout]

And what drives the design decisions in armored fighting vehicles?

Firepower, Protection and Mobility.

 

[Perfection]

This is something where I need deeper analysis.

 

[cav scout]

This is something where I need deeper analysis.

Well it really is that simple. But if you want to get into technical nuts and bolts you can always take a class:

http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/cds/shortcourses/fightingvehicledesigngt2011.html

 

[AnthonyBoscia]

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[Flying Pig]

Alternatively, if you think of the standard map-based simplification of the battlefield, the different arms apply force in different ways: the infantry provide uniform force along a front, while heavy cavalry - in all ages - provide massive force at a small point. The classic analogy of hammer and anvil is somewhat misleading, but gets the point across.

 

[WarKing]

Great Book of Tanks: The World's Most Important Tanks from World War I to the Present Day