Just last week we posted about aircraft boneyards, which are basically desert parking lots for broken-down and obsolete flying machines. The planes are left to slowly decompose or get picked apart for spare parts and scrap metal. This recycling, however, is generally not part of the program with Tank Graveyards.

Like the airplane boneyards, these massive assemblages or war machines make powerful subjects for the photographic explorers who travel to places like Afghanistan, Eritrea, Laos, Germany, Kuwait, or Iraq to revisit these decommissioned terrors. They stand as totemic symbols of both recent conflicts as well as those that have receded into history. As Environmental Graffiti notes, the tanks are "sinister reminders of more turbulent times."