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On 26 February 1991, in a sandstorm in southern Iraq, nine American tanks came over a ridge into a minefield that an Iraqi major had laid to hold them under forty guns. Not one was lost. It was the question you asked most about this battle: how? The answer is on the Iraqi side of the ridge. What Major Mohammed built, what the Fort Benning manual he studied says a minefield needs, and the four reasons his didn't stop anyone. One tank did hit a mine. 0:00 Nine tanks and a minefield 0:48 The man who laid it 2:25 The afternoon, from his side 3:50 The big mines could be seen 4:32 The small mines couldn't hurt a tank 4:50 The tanks made a road 5:31 The tank that hit a mine 5:53 Nobody was watching 7:08 "Tanks, tanks!" 7:50 Could it have worked? 8:07 The answer in one line Sources H.R. McMaster, "Eagle Troop at the Battle of 73 Easting" (The Strategy Bridge, 2016), and his filmed interview with the American Veterans Center 1LT Tim Gauthier, Eagle Troop, first-hand account (Spiritus Systems, 2026) Stephen Biddle, "Victory Misunderstood" (International Security, Fall 1996), from the 73 Easting Project of the Institute for Defense Analyses, DARPA and the U.S. Army, and its battlefield survey FM 7-10, The Infantry Rifle Company (Department of the Army, 14 December 1990), paragraphs 5-6 and 5-22 The Whirlwind War (U.S. Army Center of Military History, 1995); GAO/NSIAD-92-94 (1992); TRADOC Worldwide Equipment Guide (2001) The ground is real: radar heights from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, stretched 40 times. Where each vehicle and each mine stood is a reconstruction; the record does not give it. Heights: NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Country outlines: Natural Earth. Desert tracks: © OpenStreetMap contributors. #73easting #desertstorm #tanks

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