That camp points to Afghanistan as an example of a theatre in which the deployment of tanks could have helped protect Australian soldiers and made life more difficult for the insurgents being hunted. On the other side are those who argue that tanks are a must-have as an essential part of combined arms manoeuvre-usually adding that infantry and tanks work together to produce an effect that is greater than the sum of the parts. On one side, there are those who argue that tanks don’t add appreciable capability on the modern battlefield (at least those battlefields Australia should care about), that they are too heavy, that they are about to swarmed to death by cheap but lethal UAVs, or that long-range missiles are a more important addition to our land forces. In fact, this debate is a good example of the lack of sophistication that’s all too common in the discussion of defence capability. And once again both sides are simultaneously right and wrong. Once again there’s a lively debate on the merits of having tanks (and armoured vehicles generally) in the inventory of the Australian Army.
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