This updated edition focuses on small unit armored actions. It provides Armor leaders with a reading set that highlights actual operations in confusing and sometimes terrifying combat environments. It supports the professional development of junior leaders, particularly at the battalion and below levels, exposing them through history to the challenges of tactical command. The combat experiences included in its pages describe the mud, blood, and chaos of the real world in which Armor leaders have to function. -- Adapted from Introduction.

"PIN: 106431-000" -- Back cover. Shipping list no.: 2016-0345-P.

Foreword --Introduction -- Road to Armored Force -- Establishment of the Armored Force -- Creating an Armored Force in Pictures : -- World War I -- Army tank development 1920s-1930s -- Mechanized cavalry development in the 1930s -- The Armored Force -- The Roots of Armor : -- The Seventh Cavalry Brigade in the first Army maneuvers -- World War II : -- Armor in North Africa -- Arracourt, September 1944 -- A tank battalion commander's experience in Europe -- Extract from an armored commander's narrative on the Italian Campaign -- Tank-infantry cooperation in Italy -- Tanks in the jungle -- Armored operations on Iwo Jima -- Stability and Security in Occupied Germany : -- US Army Constabulary -- Korean War : -- Early assessment of armor in Korea -- Task Force Fowler -- Busting the barricades: how armor was employed in the urban battle of Seoul -- Breakout and pursuit operations by Task Force Lynch -- Armored task force operations -- Tank-infantry coordination -- Armor breaks the Heartbreak Ridge stalemate -- Vietnam War : -- Ambush and destruction -- armored quick reaction force -- Armored relief operations -- One tank battalion's experience in Vietnam -- Panama : -- Armor in Panama -- Gulf War : -- A platoon leader's experience -- Armor battalion command and considerations -- Armored night attack -- Combined arms task force conducts night attack -- Armored brigade command and staff operations -- Armor lessons learned -- Armor in the Balkans : -- Armor and cavalry in Bosnia -- Armor tactics, techniques, and procedures for coping with mobs and refugees -- Armor in Albania (Task Force Hawk) -- Combined arms platoon outpost operations -- An armor battalion in Kosovo -- Global War on Terrorism : -- Air deployment of TF 1-63 Armor in northern Iraq -- Thunder Run -- Tank company urban assault -- Operation Smackdown: an armored task force in Kufa -- Armor battalion full spectrum operations -- Conversion of an armor company into a light, dismounted unit -- Employment of a tank platoon as a light motorized unit -- Night urban raid by reinforced tank platoon -- Armor battalion intervention in local dispute -- Hasty convoy security at Diwaniyah -- Employment of small kill teams in a tank platoon -- COIN success in Ramadi by an armored brigade combat team -- A motorized tank company in Operation New Dawn -- U.S : -- Marine Corps tank company in Afghanistan -- Armor Branch Medal of Honor recipients.