"Tanks aren’t just for peer-warfare. They are also essential when fighting sub-peer adversaries that have their own armour. As evidence of this, we should remember that it was only 17 years ago that Western armies engaged in pitched tank battles against sub-peer armoured formations in Iraq. " Good article and good points. On the US side - how soon we forget history... Panama and Somalia - where in one we had light tanks and M113s and the other we had no tanks of IFVs.