>>64241890
>You think the Iraqis at 73 Easting had any clue about the capabilities of modern American armor?
I don't. Of course I also think even in the Republican Guard most tankers probably only had a marginal understanding of the capabilities (or how to operate/maintain) their own armor. They were a praetorian guard unit in 3rd world country, and such units tend to prioritize loyalty and fanaticism over technical aptitude (and the standards for your conscripts regarded as subhumans would be even lower). So naturally most of them would only have a very fuzzy notion of all the tactical implications of fighting a more professional army with advantages in superior thermals/night vision and funky position telling magic boxes. Like that the enemy CAN in fact attack you in a sandstorm, so you should keep doing the basic soldier stuff like maintain patrols and sentry's that you should have been doing anyway.

Obviously in an army like that some guys will know better. But Arab armies tend to limit how many people they trust to amass that kind of basic practical knowledge, and promote them to high positions for the purpose of tard wrangling. But there's a limit to how much top-down tard wrangling you can do if the enemy is generally just a lot more competent to you.