The French and Qatari armored forces fought with French-made AMX-30 tanks, which were armed with a killer main gun, but weighed almost half as much as the M1A1 Abrams or M60A1 Patton. “The AMX-30 was designed for speed and defensive mobility,” says Cogan. “It has very light armor,...
“Senior leaders come out of the Vietnam War with not much of an appreciation of tanks,” Estes said. Successive commandants failed to prioritize the tank, the author wrote. Commandant Gen. Robert M. Barrow refused to buy tanks during his en...