By Gladys Koh (26A01B)
For all of its devastation, war has a way of forcing invention.
A century ago, when the first tanks rolled over the mire of the First World War, soldiers recoiled with horror. They called them “metal monsters”—unfamiliar machines grinding through the trenches like something half alive. While some soldiers fled amidst a spray of successive gunfire, others stood frozen, trapped in the shadow of impending doom.
But the scenes before our eyes have shifted today.
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