>And tanks work just fine in the desert, as has been amply demonstrated in the Middle East all the way back to Patton. Tanks were being used to great effect by

>And tanks work just fine in the desert, as has been amply demonstrated in the Middle East all the way back to Patton. Tanks were being used to great effect by Rommel (and less successfully by others) for a long time before Patton graced the desert! In fact the battle of El Alamein where Rommel was severely pushed back was well underway when Patton landed. The Western Desert war began in mid 1940, Patton landed in late 1942. As my companion poster noted, none of this was against sand worms though