INVASION AND TANKS
SIR,—I agree with the general views of Major-General Fuller expressed in his interesting article published in your issue of June 28th as to the possibility of amphibious tanks being used for invasion. I agree, also, with him as to the best way of meeting invading tanks. As I myself stated so far back as September, 1916, and have continued to think ever since, the answer to the tank is another tank. The reasons for this view I need not enter into here.
But General Fuller is in error in stating that the first tank operation ever planned was naval in character. The first tank operation planned was for the tanks to accompany the infantry in an attack on land, such as that carried out at Cambrai on November 20th, 1917. This was the work for which the tanks were conceived, created and designed in 1914-1915. The idea of a landing operation on the Flanders coast came much later.—Yours faithfully,
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