HOW TANKS CHANGED WAR FOREVER
Why was the introduction of the Mark I tank to World War I in 1916 so important?
The war on the Western Front was at a virtual stalemate. Trench warfare was characterised by sudden offensives, one side tried to break through the other’s lines with massive artillery bombardments followed by tens of thousands of men attacking via no-man’s land. The cost of these advances in human lives was vast. Machine guns would cut down man after man from hundreds of yards away, and
