[San Jacinto]

tatical retreat..

Well, it's a tactic I can't figure out. They were in the best possible spot--causing us problems in the important job of taking over Basra. So they move out into the open to become exposed targets? There simply is no knowable explanation at this point.

[Toskrin]

In GW1, all our soldiers, from generals on down, all commented on how incompetent the Iraqi tactics were. One tank commander said that even if the US had been in T-72s and the Iraqis in Abrams, we still would have beat them.

[lepton]

Well, it's a tactic I can't figure out. They were in the best possible spot--causing us problems in the important job of taking over Basra.

Well, given that they likely have a very poor image of what's going on, and that they're being bombed directly, they may have decided to just "do something" desperate. Anyways, it's not quite as stupid as what the Iraqi army generally did during the first Gulf War.