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at this point you know what has happened a tyrant has invaded a peaceful democratic nation against all logic and morality an invasion of a sovereign european nation of this magnitude has not been seen since 1939 the invasion of poland and world war ii at large was dominated by the tank a technology that shaped the battlefield of world war ii a technology born out of the trenches of world war one a war defined by artillery and machine guns the tank served as a weaponized shell to burst through defensive positions poland's resistance to this new battlefield defining weapon relied on light infantry carried anti-tank rifles towed anti-tank guns and mechanized anti-tank vehicles those anti-tank rifles were attempting to solve one crucial problem a weapon that could be mass manufactured and put into the hands of individual soldiers a lightweight piece of equipment that could be quickly moved around the battlefield the tanks the polish most commonly faced were the ge