Comments by "120mm Smoothbore" (@120mmsmoothbore2) on "The New York Times"
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@baguettelauncher8839 Open fields can fall within the realms of conventional warfare, believe it or not the US's war in Afghanistan and Iraq wasn't nor isn't a conventional war. Even when they first invaded back in 2000 and were fighting the Iraqi Army instead of the Taliban, they didn't face any resistance due to the sheer technological advantage the US military had, i.e: The Iraqis had basically no airforce and their tanks couldn't realistically penetrate the M1A1 Abrams.
If you believe the infantry are just there to wait for CAS to hit the enemy, then the infantry is useless in a conventional war where the enemy has AA, AAA and SAMs active on the front line and in abundance around cities.
Also the US couldn't use it's Abrams in most theatres of war, they're far too heavy to go across most bridges in Europe and Asia, they've also experienced extreme difficulty in Arctic environments such as Alaska, they're only specialized for desert warfare which would be Africa and Eastern Europe/Western Asia, so infantry outside of these theatres would have to rely on the vastly outdated M2 (still a lot of ancient M1s in service) Bradley, which can be destroyed by AT mines nowadays.
The US Marines are trained in basic urban combat for a week or two whereas most other militaries (Philippines, Ireland, the UK, Germany, Japan, France and most other effective military powers in Europe) have month long courses specifically for urban combat, room clearing as well as defensive positioning setups.
The marine's battle doctrines are outdated and that's why the marines will get stomped in any other theatre outside of a desert, they know this, which is why they're retiring the M1A2 Abrams and developing a more versatile tank as well as relying less on their CAS such as the AH-64 and A-10.
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