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Record Nr.

UNINA9911021980203321

Autore

Macgregor Douglas A

Titolo

Warrior's rage : the great tank battle of 73 Easting / / Douglas Macgregor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Annapolis, Md., : Naval Institute Press, c2009

ISBN

1-283-04959-7

9786613049599

1-61251-003-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Disciplina

956.7044/242

Soggetti

73 Easting, Battle of, Iraq, 1991

73 Easting, Battle of, Iraq, 1991 - Influence

Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Tank warfare

Command of troops

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction; one Unfinished War; two Getting Ready for the Fight; three This Is Going to Be Bad; four But We've Already Seized the Objective!; five Why Are We Stopping?; six Closing with the Enemy; seven Action Front!; eight Danger Close!; nine My God, It Looks Like Armageddon!; ten Squandering Victory; Postscript; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

On 26 February 1991, cavalry troops of "Cougar Squadron," the 2nd Squadron of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, charged out of a sandstorm during Operation Desert Storm and caught Iraq's Republican Guard Corps in the open desert along the North-South grid line of a military map referred to as the "73 Easting." Taken by surprise, the defending Iraqi armor brigade was swept away in salvos of American tank and missile fire in what became the U.S. Army's largest tank battle since World War II. Douglas Macgregor, the man who trained and led Cougar Squadron into battle, recounts two stories. On