Those chewed up horse cavalry as bad as tanks did.
He explained that, together with the infantry and the field artillery, the horse cavalry was the third "member" of the "ground combat team."
Even today, the horse cavalry is still a powerful deterrent - for riot control by municipal police forces.
The horse cavalry lost its role in warfare for two reasons.
Before the 19th century, a frontal assault against a thin line could be effective when conducted by horse cavalry.
However, this did not mean that the Polish army chose to attack tanks with horse cavalry.
He was one of the last senior commanders in the army to have served in the horse cavalry.
He was a colonel in the old horse cavalry back in the 1920s.
Dowries went out with the horse cavalry, for God's sake.
Had they ever slipped back enough technologically to have used horse cavalry?