Steven J. Zaloga

US Battle Tanks 1946-2025 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from the end of World War II through to the present day.

In this, the second of two highly illustrated volumes telling the full history of the design, development, and operational use of US Army and US Marine Corps battle tanks, Steven J. Zaloga takes the story from the end of World War II, through the US-Soviet rivalry of the Cold War period, right up to the latest developments in American armored technology.

US Battle Tanks 1946-2025 draws and expands on material published in Osprey's New Vanguard and Duel series to explain how the US Army attempted to come to grips with the challenges of the nuclear battlefield, and examines the introduction of new tank designs such as the famous Patton tank series, as well as short-lived attempts to develop more radical tanks such as the T95. It covers the overly ambitious and failed MBT-70 tank program and the more austere M1 Abrams that followed - a tank that proved to be the best US tank design of the post-World War II period and one that is still in service today.

Published in association with the AUSA Book Program, offering quality books about US Army heritage, military theory and policy, and security in the modern world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472865694
• Artikelnr.: 72250808

Autorenporträt

Steven J. Zaloga received his BA in History from Union College and his MA from Columbia University. He has worked as an analyst in the aerospace industry for three decades, covering missile systems and the international arms trade, and has served with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federal think tank. He is the author of numerous books on military technology and history, including NVG 294 Allied Tanks in Normandy 1944 and NVG 283 American Guided Missiles of World War II. He currently lives in Maryland, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Chapter 1: The Wartime Legacy Chapter 2: Tank War in Korea
Chapter 3: US Tanks of the Early Cold War Era Chapter 4: Cold War Tanks:
The 1960s Generation Chapter 5: US Tanks in Combat 1965-75 Chapter 6: US
Tanks Post-Vietnam Chapter 7: Operation Desert Storm Chapter 8: End of the
Cold War Chapter 9: The New World Disorder Conclusion