General Franks, the Corps commander is definately the one that wrote the book I read it in. Can't remember if it was the battle of 73 eastling or not. But I have read stories about how close it was, with M2s using a 25mm gun to "dust off" Iraqi infantry from the decks of the tanks. Those Iraqis had nuts!
I didn't even think about the nukes changing the span of control the soviets had over their units. You're definately right about tactics being less strigently controlled. They'd have failed anways as there are no longed masses of tanks being made in the Urals as replacements for the next three echelon frontal assault.
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