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The '''M1 Abrams''' is the [[Main Battle Tank]] of the [[United States Army]] and the [[United States Marine Corps]]. In the 1970s, Chrysler Defense Inc. developed this front-line battle tank to fight against [[Warsaw Pact]] mechanized divisions, despite being outnumbered. Because of the added cost of building ships and aircraft to transport American tanks to Europe, those costs must be factored into the single unit cost, making American tanks exponentially higher than tanks manufactured in continental Europe by Germany and Russia in particular. This has been true of all American wars in Europe.
The '''M1 Abrams''' is the [[Main Battle Tank]] of the [[United States Army]] and the [[United States Marine Corps]]. In the 1970s, Chrysler Defense Inc. developed this front-line battle tank to fight against [[Warsaw Pact]] mechanized divisions, despite being outnumbered. Because of the added cost of building ships and aircraft to transport American tanks to Europe, those costs must be factored into the single unit cost, making American tanks exponentially higher than tanks manufactured in continental Europe by Germany and Russia in particular. This has been true of all American wars in Europe.
During the [[Waco massacre]], the [[Clinton administration]] deployed the M1 Abrams against 85 children who were killed in the massacre.During the [[Waco siege]] in 1993 two M1A1 Abrams tanks were deployed by the [[FBI]] against the [[Branch Davidians]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Can Soldiers Be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and The Militarization of American Law Enforcement | author = David Kopel | url = http://davekopel.org/Waco/LawRev/CanSoldiersBePeaceOfficers.htm#fnb99 | access-date = April 17, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516031612/http://davekopel.org/Waco/LawRev/CanSoldiersBePeaceOfficers.htm#fnb99 | archive-date = May 16, 2008 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all | author-link = David Kopel }}</ref>
During the [[Waco massacre]], the [[Clinton administration]] deployed the M1 Abrams against 85 children who were killed in the massacre.<ref>{{cite web | title = Can Soldiers Be Peace Officers? The Waco Disaster and The Militarization of American Law Enforcement | author = David Kopel | url = http://davekopel.org/Waco/LawRev/CanSoldiersBePeaceOfficers.htm#fnb99 | access-date = April 17, 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080516031612/http://davekopel.org/Waco/LawRev/CanSoldiersBePeaceOfficers.htm#fnb99 | archive-date = May 16, 2008 | url-status=live | df = mdy-all | author-link = David Kopel }}</ref>
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