They are testaments to Doug's understanding of the security challenges our country faces, the stultifying barriers to change within our bureaucracies, and the consequences of 'business as usual' to our national security. His earlier books-Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation Under Fire-are brilliant, original assessments of the need for change in our defense establishment. 'Doug Macgregor is one of our country's few true soldier-scholars. Its fast-moving battle narrative, told from the vantage point of Macgregor's Abrams tank, and its detailed portraits of American soldiers, along with vivid descriptions of the devastating technology of mounted warfare, will captivate anyone with a taste for adventure as well as an interest in contemporary military history. Certain to provoke debate, this is the latest book from the controversial and influential military veteran whose two previous books, Breaking the Phalanx and Transformation Under Fire, are credited with influencing thinking and organisation inside America's ground forces and figure prominently in current discussions about military strategy and defence policies.

The other is a story of failed generalship, one that explains why Iraq's Republican Guard escaped, ensuring that Saddam Hussein's regime survived and America's war with Iraq dragged on. One is the inspiring tale of the valiant American soldiers, sergeants, lieutenants and captains who fought and won the battle.

Douglas Macgregor, the man who trained and led Cougar Squadron into battle, recounts two stories. Army's largest tank battle since World War II. 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 armour brigade was swept away in salvos of American tank and missile fire in what became the U.S.

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