harmonica
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..GPS greatly helped in PG1...the Iraqis thought no one could navigate in the desert --so they didn't defend in the desert wasteland--yet the LRDG navigated much, much further distances in WW2!
..we received very crude GPS hand held systems in the USMC in 1990, the year I got out of the USMC....I hardly remember it because I only handled it once or twice..now, most everyone has it!
..we received very crude GPS hand held systems in the USMC in 1990, the year I got out of the USMC....I hardly remember it because I only handled it once or twice..now, most everyone has it!
GPS and the World's First "Space War"Another challenge involved a key component of the U.S.’s ground strategy—moving infantry and artillery into even less hospitable areas of the desert in order to outflank and encircle Iraqi forces. GPS would be crucial to helping ground troops “navigate through terrain that the Iraqis weren’t bothering to defend because they didn’t think anyone could find their way through there,
As A Young Captain, McMaster Commanded One Of The Most Epic Tank Battles In HistoryMohammed’s critical mistake centered around his assumptions about his enemy and what was possible. He assumed that the American forces would have to travel via the road, and oriented his tanks and other weaponry in that direction. He based that assumption on the idea that U.S. forces could not navigate across the desert with its indiscernible geographic conditions, apparently unaware of the new GPS technology that McMaster’s tanks and Bradleys were outfitted with.
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