Camp Colt to Desert Storm
Subtitle: The History of U.S. Armored Forces
Contributors: George F. Hofmann (Editor); Donn A. Starry (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: September 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9780813121307
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Land forces & warfare; 20th century; Mechanization, Military; Armored Land Forces; History - Military / War; Military Science; Military; USA; Military - United States; Military - Weapons; Armed Forces; Armored troops; History; United States
First sentence: One of history's great ironies is that the nation that spawned the technology from which the tank was created did not play a role in that vehicle's conception.
Description: "The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II. In the years since, additional technological developments - including nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, computer assisted firing, and satellite navigation - have continued to transform the face of combat.

The only complete history of U.S. armed forces from the advent of the tank in battle during World War I to the campaign to drive Iraq out of Kuwait in 1991, Camp Colt to Desert Storm traces the development of doctrine for operations at the tactical and operational levels of war and translates this fighting doctrine into the development of equipment."--BOOK JACKET.