Re: "Tanks, for the Memories"

In a message dated 2/6/00 3:10:53 PM Central Standard Time,
apter@prodigy.net 
writes:

<< I think you will find that in the Gulf War Tank to tank kills were
not were
 most tank losses came from. >>

They were mostly lost to aircraft and helicopters -however such weapons
are 
part of combined arms doctrine and neither tank, infantry nor gunship
can 
survive the modern battlefield without balanced support. In the US army
a 
significant number of our losses were to "friendly' fire. When push came
to 
shove the Iraquis "balanced" forces were on the losing end of the
exchange 
due to superior doctrine and superior weapons, however that does not
mean the 
tank is now, nor ever has been, invlunerable.