And with the majority of the world’s current and future megacities in the Pacific region, most in the littoral zones, the retired major sees that as inevitable. Spencer said that ditching the tank entirely severely handicaps the Marine Corps should it need to fight in a city. John Spencer, who started his career as an enlisted soldier and saw combat in Iraq, is now the chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern Warfare Institute at West Point in New York. Where the tank treads meet the road for the individual Marine or solider is when the fighting hits a city.
“There is no organizational effort in the Army to replace the tank.” “I don’t think we’ve seen the end of the tank,” he said. The retired three-star general still sees the importance of the tank land warfare, noting those added brigades, modernization and upgrades to the existing tank fleet and investment by the Army. But the Army recently did add two more Armored Brigade Combat Teams, putting those numbers up to 16 ABCTs.
Spoehr did understand nervousness among some Marine leaders on looking to the Army for armor in a quick-response fight.
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