"The Death of the Armor Corps"

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Recommended reading:

"The Death of the Armor Corps"

by Colonel Gian P. Gentile

I consider this as an anecdote about a far more general trend.

There will be counter-forces that will reverse this trend on the basis of the 2006 Lebanon War (where the IDF discovered that its combined arms battle training was lacking due to its occupation with the Palestinians) and the 2008 South Ossetia War (where Russians won a classic land battle with armoured forces, but discovered training deficiencies as well).

The sooner the West gets out of OEF-A & ISAF, the sooner will the damage to our combined arms proficiency be repaired.

Sven Ortmann

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