Continuing on this series of videos supporting the WW2 Channel, this is part one of a two-part look at how the US Army ended up with the armored force with which it entered combat in North Africa.
Sources include:
Forging the Thunderbolt (Gillie)
Men on Iron Ponies (Morton)
Greasy Automatons and the Horsey Set (Tedesco)
A number of Center of Military History documents
A few other things I've forgotten about, but the above will get you 90% of the way there.
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Christie Tank Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0APcEvupuiA
1930 Cavalry Journal.
https://mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/CavalryArmorJournal/1930s/1930Apr_Jul_Oct.pdf
1939 Cavalry Journal
https://mcoepublic.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/library/CavalryArmorJournal/1930s/1939Jul-Dec.pdf
Soviet doctrine video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7nr83CYQ9Q
Interview with Ken Estes on USMC tank history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DBmNuyvfSw
Assessment of USMC light tanks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy4dwUnF3VQ
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For the pro-horse generals I wonder their first impression of tanks as unreliable during their time in the AEF during WWI helped thier biasedness. And they were stuck using the same WWI tank designs into the 1930s such as the roughly 900 M1917 light tank which was license built WWI Renault FT.