Exaggerating Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam…

— Ralph Peters

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

— Guy Martin

1st Infantry' was hot.

— The Alchemist

I am an armor officer. I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army…

— Eric Shinseki

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

— Ralph Peters

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who…

— Winston Churchill

“One of his mechanics who despaired when he could not get spare parts for the tanks once announced casually that most of them were…

— Ladislas Farago

“Nor was Iraq’s combat experience in the October War any more impressive: the armoured division that arrived at the Golan front ten days after…

— Efraim Karsh

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

— George S. Patton

“war ferrying troops to Italy for General Patton. His talent as a machinist and fireman earned him commendations, but he occasionally found himself in…

— Walter Isaacson

“In April 1967, Johnson had dispatched General Creighton Abrams to Vietnam as Westy’s deputy. Abrams, a famous tank commander in World War II, had…

— Mark Bowden

“In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in combat that…

— Rick Atkinson