Dingbat Of The Year. This guy must have seen the movie Patton rather than reading Rommel.
The modern tank is useless. What are you going to do with it? Flatten houses? Block streets? Have big tank battles in the desert? Lose one every time you piss off an infantryman enough who’s got a grenade? Russian tank men recite stories of running from certain infantrymen who had obviously lost their minds or never had a sense of fear in the first place (oh, take your choice). The Germans had a BADGE for single-handedly destroying a tank. That’s right, the crack-job who actually gets under the land ship’s machine-gun range and close enough to flip a grenade into a sight slit. Nobody says it was never awarded posthumously.
The Queen of the Battlefield was the infantry. The new queen is anything with wings or propellers or a jet engine that can eject explosives in any form. But any of them can be taken out of the air by some pissed-off villager with a rifle; all fuel tanks can be penetrated. I’m not saying it’s EASY to take out an F-14, but sooner or later the pilot’s going to come down close enough, and anybody who’s fought in helicopters can describe the results of one well-placed bullet. God help you if you’re up against a woman — with our natural hand-eye coordination — with a rifle protecting the village perimeter.
There’s a reason they call it a Jesus Nut.
As for the guy’s claim that we Could Have Won the first gulf war — well, then it wouldn’t have been punitive expedition to put our Tame Dictator back in his place, would it? It was supposed to be a spanking, so our dog went back into his kennel. After all, it’s not always easy to get a really good dictator under your thumb, and how can you trust a new one?
Heck, the army even had a book called “how to kill tanks” once upon a time. (originall posted to the incorrect place.)
Now you have to find this book and tell us where to get it. One of the things I regret from the army is NOT taking home the classified manual for executions (including gallows building) and copying it…
I got it at a flea market, along with a pile of other books that someone “liberated” from their stint in the armed forces. Alas the last time I saw it (or its associated books) was at least 3 house cleanings and a move ago. I do wish I could find them. It had pictures and instructions, indlucing how to set up grenades to make trees fall on tanks.