Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman

BTW with some saying about needing more tanks and armour.
Hasn't it been shown time and time again that tanks in a built up populated area are vulnerable and not very effective , plus have the a problem related to inflicting lots of needless civilian casualties .
Traditional wisdom is that an armored unit is severely vulnerable without infantry support in a built up area. This does not mean that tanks are of no use in city combat. Quite the contrary actually. In WWII the limited availability of tanks in Aachen lead to the employment of SP artillery in the role of direct support weapons, much less able than tanks. An Armored Cavalry or Armor-Infantry team was exactly what was needed to secure the country, not just the city. It was strictly a civilian Political decision which kept it from being deployed in the first instance.