From:	Paul J. Adam Paul@********.demon.co.uk
Subject:	Starting equiptment [was: Value and so on]
Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 1999 18:32:47 +0100

In article <37942053.1A56EF3E@*******.com>, Allen Versfeld
<moe@*******.com> writes
>"Paul J. Adam" wrote:
>> "I faced US air power for two months and lost five tanks. I faced British
>> armour for two hours and lost _all_ my tanks." An Iraqi battalion
>> commander. Same story was repeated with variations throughout the
>> war.

>Oh God! Not the old "US vs UK" discussion again! ;-)

Nope. The better-known version was a brigade commander whose loss
numbers were different but similar in proportion, except it had been US
VII Corps M1A1s that did the execution... I just had the Anglocentric one
nearer to hand.

--
Paul J. Adam