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Originally Posted by crockett
The battlefield is now dependent on air power, and moving small strike forces around quickly. That means light armored troop transports and trucks like the Hummer and so on. Large scale troop movements are sitting ducks today for any modern military and useless against small hit and run insurgent style attackers.
If you get to the point of moving large amounts of troops around on the battlefield, you are already in control of the areas and just squashing out resistance & controlling the area which a tank is useless for and APC's or Hummer type trucks are much better suited for.
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Air power was already important in WWII, Germany could basically move tanks and larger concentrations of troops only at night, in the later part of the war.
About those lightly armed and fast troops. How do you think you will get upper hand using just those? Even if you have air superiority, not to mention if you don't have or the superiority is mixed. Just regular minefield deployed either by hand or by artillery, planes, or other methods, will hault the troops. And lacking with heavier armament, are easy peasy even for smaller troops and prone for artillery, etc. If that Black Hawk down movie is any correct, the Hummers alone were useless even for very lightly armed and poor Somali troops.