Putting the anti-tank units under an energetic commander who is prepared to catch breakthroughs strike me as a bit of a mirror match. In order to defeat a concentrated lance of tanks, a concentrated shield of anti-tank units is used to parry the blow, both of whom are expected, if not required, to lead from the front and feel the pulse of the battlefield from their command vehicles.
Like the knights of prior eras, or the pilots of the First World War, the tank and anti-tank commander of the time takes on a rarefied air as the master of a decisive form of war, both technical in preparation and intuitive in execution.
By the way, that anecdote about four to eight tanks becoming forty-eight tanks reminded me of these movie clips:
Putting the anti-tank units under an energetic commander who is prepared to catch breakthroughs strike me as a bit of a mirror match. In order to defeat a concentrated lance of tanks, a concentrated shield of anti-tank units is used to parry the blow, both of whom are expected, if not required, to lead from the front and feel the pulse of the battlefield from their command vehicles.
Like the knights of prior eras, or the pilots of the First World War, the tank and anti-tank commander of the time takes on a rarefied air as the master of a decisive form of war, both technical in preparation and intuitive in execution.
By the way, that anecdote about four to eight tanks becoming forty-eight tanks reminded me of these movie clips:
https://youtu.be/quGOlbNnWaY