The tank is there to combine three things, fire power, mo ity and protection. It has a big gun, it has tracps, and it can move. And it has heavy armor that can shield the people inside it. You still have to have something that can punch through enemy defences. If the tank isn't doing it, something else has to do it.
America’s central bank raised rates by .75% yesterday—the biggest increase in almost 30 years. Whether that will help tame rising prices without triggering a recession is unclear. The poor performance of Russian tanks in Ukraine has led some to wonder whether
the tank itself is obsolete. And the rousing, darkly humorous defiance of
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