How the Desert Storm Battle of Easting Nearly Ended in Catastrophe
What turned out to be an amazing and thrilling victory, could easily have been the biggest disaster of Desert Storm.
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What turned out to be an amazing and thrilling victory, could easily have been the biggest disaster of Desert Storm.
What turned out to be an amazing and thrilling victory, could easily have been the biggest disaster of Desert Storm.
You can read part two here. When Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster was elevated to become President Trump’s national security advisor in 2017, the media was awash with references to his role in the biggest tank fight of Desert Storm, the Battle of 73 Easting. While these stories conveyed the basic outcome of the fight, they did little to illuminate how the battle unfolded or what set the stage before the first cannon shot screamed out of his tank. What turned out to be an amazing and thrilling victory, could easily have been the biggest disaster of Desert Storm. Twenty-eight years ago this ...