"The tank is dead. Long live the tank." Foolish things are a fact of history, and many such utterances will come in the future. Predictions of the tank's death were very loud in the 1990s. Such musings resurfaced after the U.S. overran Iraq (twice). The "experts" said the tank had no real role in future U.S. military operations. Future conflicts would involve light forces, small wars, and counterinsurgency campaigns, they confidently proclaimed. Well, those same experts once said fighter aircraft no longer needed guns and that ground forces were obsolete in an era of nuclear weapons and precision-guided munitions.
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