ABSTRACT
‘The art of achieving a rapid and decisive victory over the enemy with the minimum losses to personnel and equipment requires continuous and inquisitive search for armaments, better organization of tactical groupings, and reliable methods of administrative support. The one able to solve these problems in peace-time will have greater expectations for success in war’. Likewise, it would be almost impossible to change the organization and structure of the army in the field, if a conventional war became nuclear. The structure and organization for nuclear war must be so designed as to be also suitable for a conventional war. In a conventional war, and especially a mobile one, the infantry must rely on the support of tanks, artillery and aircraft. The capability of tanks to survive in a conventional war depends in the first place, naturally, on how well the enemy is equipped with anti-tank devices in the particular sector and how well they are sited and operated.
