Why didn't the Ukrainians make use of this?

One might note that his second raid on Columbus ended in disaster for him as the US Army was present and set up machineguns in the streets with pre-planned lines of fire and slaughtered Villa's men who were completely surprised and confused by the Army's well-arranged killing zones.

But news of the Santa Ysabel massacre didn’t trigger any U.S. retaliation. So Villa tried something more audacious. In the predawn hours of March 9, 1916, Villa’s men raided the town of Columbus, New Mexico, three miles north of the border. A regiment of the U.S. Army’s 13th Cavalry was encamped at the town, and its munitions depot was a target of the raid. Despite being surprised by the attack, the U.S. troops quickly regrouped and returned fire—at one point setting up a Benet-Mercier machine gun in front of the town’s one hotel. The fighting, as well as the fires set by Villa’s men, left the town in ruins.

So not a second attack. There were no "well arranged kill zones". They were able to improvise a position, but that was neither "well arranged" or a "kill zone", much less multiple "kill zones." Villa's men were not slaughtered, in fact only 8 died. Just about everything you originally said was false.

Battle of Naco and Agua Prieta

Neither involved US forces. They predated the Raid on Columbus, so could not have been part of the punitive expedition that followed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Naco
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Agua_Prieta

The US Army didn't standardize trucks and phase out horses until the mid 1930's.

Class-B Standardized Military Truck, better known as the as the Liberty Truck, had its design released in 1917, well before the mid-1930's. It was first released as a suggestion, but after all that went wrong in the Punitive Expedition, it was made a requirement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_truck
 
The age of the tank is over.

It basically ended when columns of Russian tanks were destroyed in Grozny by a few dozen Chechen rebels with anti tank missiles.

This is the age of drones, air power, and shoulder fired anti-tank missiles.


Bullshit!


"In Ukraine, the Russian military and intelligence agencies did not foresee the power of the anti-tank missiles. [Our] analysis even questioned whether the tank is becoming obsolete."

--> Brent M. Eastwood PhD, now serving as 1945’s Defense and National Security Editor, he is the author of Humans, Machines, and Data: Future Trends in Warfare. He is an Emerging Threats expert and former U.S. Army Infantry officer.

https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/03/switchblade-kamikaze-drones-russias-worst-nightmare/


Is the Tank Dead? Long live the Javelin, the Switchblade, the NLAW, the.. ?

Is the value of the tank in modern warfare zilch?

That’s the lesson many observers are taking from a flood of images depicting Russian tanks mired in the mud, their turrets blown off, having been ambushed and destroyed by Ukrainian forces armed with cheap anti-tank weapons.

These images are often pointed to alongside feeds from Turkish-produced drones destroying tanks, seemingly with ease. After the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war, in which Russian-produced tanks were destroyed by the same model of drones, this is heady stuff for those ready to proclaim the death of the tank.

https://warontherocks.com/2022/04/the-tank-is-dead-long-live-the-javelin-the-switchblade-the/
 
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