The first functional tank ever built was the venerable Little Willie, constructed in 1915 by the British William Foster & Co. It was not designed for combat, but rather as a proof of concept. The Landships Committee, led by Winston Churchill, was seeking a way to break the defensive deadlocks that were an inevitability of trench-digging tactics. Assaults on opposing trenches could and did result in enormous losses, so part of the logic was this: If individual soldiers couldn’t
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