I talked to my brother-in-law(A RSM) about tanks, and were they out of date now.
He absolutely agreed, right up until the point where somebody started firing back, and then all the neigh sayers who went on about how we should have lighter more mobile armies, looked for the nearest tank to..
1. Fire back.
2. Then hide behind.
His point was, and it reminds me of the "should the Apache have the 30mm cannon fitted" discussion, that when the real nasty fighting starts wether your Sharpe in the Peninsula war, or a Marine stuck under heavy enemy fire in Afghanistan, nothing replaces the ability to loiter around blowing the **** out of the enemy with large amounts of mark one eyeball guided lead.