[handy]

"A tank drove simply over one of the vehicles without firing a shot"

And the competition among tank drivers begins... who will have the most silhouettes of a pickup trunk stenciled on the side of their tank

[wretchard]

No one has ever written a satisfactory account of how the bridges at Nasiriyah and now, at Najaf came to be seized intact. A British article compared the seizure at Nasiriyah to the bridges at Remagen. But now Najaf!

River crossings are the most hotly contested objectives in land warfare. The Iraqis are really fighting disconnectedly. They can't seem to put their punches together. A team with a Kornet here doesn't constitute a defense. For comparison, consider the performance of a battalion of the First British Airborne at Arnhem. They held the bridge for many days with nothing but Piats against infantry and armor. They were under orders not to blow the bridge, as the allies had planned on using it.