Truth About Tanks: How NATO Lied Its Way to Disaster in Ukraine, by Scott Ritter - The Unz Review

Truth About Tanks: How NATO Lied Its Way to Disaster in Ukraine, by Scott Ritter - The Unz Review: https://cdnn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e7/01/12/1106455372_0:161:3071:1888_1920x0_80_0_0_2add8308c775b4679e10574905f4b63e.jpg.webp Tank warfare has evolved. The large force-on-force armored battles that were the hallmark of much of WWII, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, which served as the foundation of operational doctrine for both NATO and the Soviet Union (and which was implemented in full by the United States during Operation Desert Storm in 1991), has run its course. Like most military technological innovations, the ability to make a modern main battle tank survivable has been outstripped by the fielding of defensive systems designed to overcome such defenses. If a modern military force attempted to launch a large-scale tank-dominated attack against a well-equipped