Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and sloppy logistics but the happenstance of the hard knocks schoolroom in a 21st century near-peer fight in which the manned tank is simply not of any martial utility anymore when a salvo competition of cheaper munitions makes it a munitions sponge. The article below insists that a lack of air cover doomed the tanks but I would suggest...

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the Institute. The Ford carrier that can't reliably launch and retrieve aircraft, the Little Crappy Ship fiasco and the ungainly and ugly Zumwalt class destroyer. Furthermore, the fleet is aging. As ships become older, they become more expensive and difficult to maintain. Ships are being tied in up in compounded maintenance delays, taking...