There really hasn't been a conflict that would showcase modern anti-tank equipment and tactics since 1973. We expected it in the first Gulf War, but Saddam's antitank weapons were older and basically ineffective against the Abrams, so he mainly relied on tank v. tank defenses. If we ever have to take on Syria, they have some of the Russians' more up to date equipment.
BTW, I remember participating in a huge war game simulating a Warsaw Pact conventional attack on Germany. With heavy losses, we stopped them about half way across. When I read Tom Clancy's book on the same subject it struck me how close our results were to his description of the Army side of the conflict. I always wondered if he was privy to the results.
The nuclear deterrent kept ‘em right where they were. Then, as Shevrednze (? whew...) said to Gorbachev, “the whole thing has gone rotten”, and a bunch of hardware got sold to China. That was really nice of the Russians, eh? ;’) It was good that a ground war never took place during the Cold War (two major threats or more toward West Berlin, during the Truman administration, and again during, hmm, the Missile Crisis), because judging from WWII, huge losses don’t phase the overall ground movements of the Red Army.