It certainly seems that a mastery of tank warfare would have helped a lot. But the British experience with tanks shows that there was a huge amount of resistance within the military to new forms of warfare. Britain only had tanks because Winston Churchill made it his priority to support them.
New weapon systems are not impressive at first. The old ways are typically a local optimum. So the real question here is how to leave that local optimum!
It certainly seems that a mastery of tank warfare would have helped a lot. But the British experience with tanks shows that there was a huge amount of resistance within the military to new forms of warfare. Britain only had tanks because Winston Churchill made it his priority to support them.
New weapon systems are not impressive at first. The old ways are typically a local optimum. So the real question here is how to leave that local optimum!