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Originally Posted by Happy Times
And i agree in the Iraq battles, i cant believe anybody would make any conclusions based on them.  |
2003 - probably not. 1991 - that is something different. There must have been some extremely sharp tank fighting taken place, with extremely bad visiblity and tank formations sometimes badly messed up, having enemy units and friendlies mixed at point blank range (referring to some according informations from "Into the Storm"). the Iraquis back then may have been technologically inferior, but tactically quite some of their commanders showed sharp teeth. If they would have had better weapons, it maybe wouldn't have changed the outcome of the war, but the American losses possibly would have been very high in some areas of the battlefield. As General Franks, commander of VII corps, put it: that it went so fast should nobody lead to believe that it was easy.