Each troop comprised 120 soldiers, 12-13 M3 Bradley fighting vehicles and nine M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks.This is the second of two parts of a review article on some of the key historical books written in English on military operations in the Persian Gulf from 1990 to 1991. Each ground squadron was made up of three cavalry troops, a tank company, a self-propelled howitzer battery, and a headquarters troop. It consisted of three ground squadrons, an aviation squadron, and a support squadron. unit in the battle was the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, a 4,500 man reconnaissance and security element assigned to VII Corps. The battle was described by the Military Channel as "the last great tank battle of the 20th century." It was named for a UTM north-south coordinate line in the featureless desert that was used as a phase line to measure progress of the offensive. The battle took place several hours after the Battle of Al Busayyah. The Battle of 73 Easting was a decisive tank battle fought on 26 February 1991, during the Gulf War, between United States armored forces of the 7th Corps and those of the Iraqi Republican Guard and its Tawakalna Division. Combatants: Iraq, People's Mujahedin of Iran, Peshmerga, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan.Part of: Kurdish–Iraqi conflict, Gulf War.Following initial victories, the revolution was held back from continued success by internal divisions as well as a lack of anticipated American support. Participants of the uprising were a diverse mix of ethnic, religious and political affiliations, including military mutineers, Shia Arab Islamists, Kurdish nationalists, and far-left groups. Within the first two weeks, most of Iraq's cities and provinces fell to rebel forces. This perception of weakness was largely the result of the outcome of two prior wars: the Iran–Iraq War and the invasion of Kuwait, both of which occurred within a single decade and devastated the economy and population of Iraq. The mostly uncoordinated insurgency, often referred to as the Sha'aban Intifada among Arabs and as the National Uprising among Kurds, was fueled by the perception that then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was responsible for systemic social repression and had become vulnerable to regime change. The 1991 uprisings in Iraq were a series of popular rebellions in northern and southern Iraq in March and April 1991 after the Gulf War.
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