![]() The imagery of ‘people power’ which came to prominence in the later 20th century directly defined itself against tanks employed against civilians by dictatorial and totalitarian regimes. Yet tanks have continued to play their part in ‘softer’ missions intended to maintain order, as in present-day ‘peace-keeping’ operations, or to overawe, if not flatten, protesting citizens. ![]() ![]() (This was the largest tank engagement in history - more than 6,000 were involved - when the Soviet army won a decisive victory over the German Wehrmacht.) The military theorists may have felt more at home with the thought of great clashes in which tank army came up against tank army, in the manner of the Battle of Kursk in 1943. Even now, when advanced types of tank can destroy enemy targets while still far enough away to be invisible to the naked eye, the ‘shock effect’ of the machine’s appearance remains important. ![]()
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