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Cargando... Warrior's Rage: The Great Tank Battle of 73 Eastingpor Douglas Macgregor
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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 No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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In Macgregor's view, the timidity and lack of solid leadership from the General's in higher command allowed the Republican Guard Corps to escape and Saddam Hussein to remain in power. Throughout the book, Macgregor details his frustrations with higher command and feels that victory in 1991 was called preemptively and that it ultimately rang hollow.
Throughout the book, Macgregor provides a scathing critique of the ineptitude of the leaders above him. If you can put up with that (or at least empathize with him) then you'll probably enjoy this book. Before this, I had only read war memoirs about infantry battles, never about armor. I was pulled into the setting of rumbling along in a formation of dozens of tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles moving through a flat-open desert. When Macgregor describes the violence that occurred, I swear, it was better than watching an action film. You really get a sense of the large scale of what is going on and that these soldiers are riding on top of some serious firepower. Macgregor aptly describes the carnage that occurred during the battle as enemy tanks are reduced to flaming hulks of twisted metal in a matter of seconds and as enemy infantry are gruesomely cut down by machine gun fire. It's a horrific, yet powerful scene which he describes.
In short, I felt like I was with the author in the desert, blasting away at Iraqi T-72s. If you want a thrilling account of armored warfare on a tactical level with a good dose of leadership thrown in, read this book. ( )