Iran is moving its tanks. Decades as a military planner taught me what that means

During nearly five decades in uniform and as a Pentagon strategist, I served alongside armored and mechanized forces in South Korea , at Fort Riley and in divided Cold War Germany. While stationed along the Iron Curtain, I helped plan the defense against a Soviet armor-heavy assault through the Fulda Gap and across NATO's central front. Later, during the Iraq War, I observed firsthand how American armored formations were employed in combat. One lesson stayed with me. Military professionals rarel