At the moment of reckoning, German tanks mass outside the city and begin firing.
"1,000 tanks massed on Polish border, Ten divisions reported ready for swift stroke", screamed the Telegraph headline above her story on 29 August 1939.
At a pivotal moment in the siege of Kunduz late last month, a Northern Alliance commander urgently requested American airstrikes against several hundred Taliban soldiers and tanks massing on a ridge more than a mile from the city.
BRUSSELS — During the cold war, when Western and Warsaw Pact tanks massed on either side of the Iron Curtain, the idea of a brand for NATO would have been ludicrous because everyone knew why it was important.
Regime mouthpieces: Defending the indefensible * During the invasion of Iraq the Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf earned the moniker "Comical Ali" for his dogged insistence that there were no "American infidels in Baghdad", even as tanks massed nearby.
The tanks massed in and around Tiananmen Square may be there not just to frighten off protesters, but to defend the claim to power of Mr Deng's ally-in-blood, President Yang Shangkun, against more liberal challengers.
But before anyone starts digging fallout shelters, let's have a reality check: There is almost certainly no real-deal intel about, say, Russian tanks massing on the Lithuanian border.
There were also no differences in final mean per tank body mass, SVL, head width or fat body mass, or the coefficients of variation of these per tank measures.
