But..
You still see shit being inside.
You still cannot hear anything except the engine or shell fired.
You still never had a strategist or politician taking your seat in one of them, just in a manoeuvre.
being a tank crew soldier.
Warfare developed along with industrialisation, but the heads of many think tanks are too heavy to manoeuvre quickly, just like tanks.
Verdun showed the ill mind of ammunition mass production, by meters of gain for thousand of souls taken.
Vietnam showed mobility gone wrong by an average survival time of sixteen seconds in a helicopter drop zone of GIs.
And digitalisation in the form of communication and data analytics basically is a topic for Hollywood, but none for tank crews and their commanders.
The conflict in Ukraine proofs that a light mobile force of small groups operating rather independently in a defined area using modern light weapons like shoulder launched rockets, short range commercial drones, light automatic weapons and standard medium artillery from mortars to 120mm Howitzers, using pretty much gang war tactics, are superior than at least average world war tactic based forces.
Instead of building expensive future metal junk being moving coffins for a crew that was even trained for months, the soldiers should learn how to drive off road cars and trucks, motorcycles, fire rockets, use drones, operate and move mortars and artillery, utilise hide and seek tactics, communicate securely and safely giving precise information and what to pack into rucksack, belt and trunk to make it alive out again facing modern battlegrounds.
Or....just drop that big thing and we all tear all known order to mankind down for ever...
