Eh, that was the working assumption up until very recently. With the advent of drones and pin point artillery, having a lot of infantry support just means the enemy kills a tank and a platoon.
The Russians have just been avoiding sending tanks into urban settings by leveling entire cities. I think this particular conflict is going to be rewriting a lot of doctrine we have about combined arms warfare.
My historian friend shared a quote with me whose source I don’t recall, but it was roughly “wars are fought based on the rules written during the previous war”. He thought it was not always true, but interesting to look at the ways in which it was (i.e. considering how military strategy evolved at the beginning of WW2)
Eh, that was the working assumption up until very recently. With the advent of drones and pin point artillery, having a lot of infantry support just means the enemy kills a tank and a platoon.
The Russians have just been avoiding sending tanks into urban settings by leveling entire cities. I think this particular conflict is going to be rewriting a lot of doctrine we have about combined arms warfare.
My historian friend shared a quote with me whose source I don’t recall, but it was roughly “wars are fought based on the rules written during the previous war”. He thought it was not always true, but interesting to look at the ways in which it was (i.e. considering how military strategy evolved at the beginning of WW2)