Could an alternate development of tanks lead them to be a naval service asset in one or more countries?

raharris1973

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I think the tank (or some analogue) would evolve - the prospect of a ‘land battleship’ of some form as engines develop is inevitable. Would they be an army asset, or be pushed as ‘land battleships’ of the Navy?

Now *that* would be wild. Armored machines as Navy assets on land. Whole new vistas for inter-service rivalry and practical cooperation. It sounds like an organizational mess, but interestingly, it sounds like a way the Kaiserliche Marine can make itself most useful for Germany with its popular, broad-based, "national" Naval service, especially if the Army remains wary of over-expansion because of fear of 'diluting' the class composition of the officer corps and recruits.
 

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