M1 Abrams vs T-72 Ural - Steven J. Zaloga

Part of the digital free downloads Osprey Publishing ran during the Covid-19 pandemic, this book takes a look at the two main battle tanks during Operation Desert Storm 1991.

While not my area of gaming intrest though, it was free, and I like to read, so hence...

While the Cold War never turned hot to compare NATO tanks vs Warsaw Pact ones, this conflict might have been a (poor) surrogate.  Granted, the russian tanks weren't the most modern and the Iraqi crews probably not as good, but it gives some indication on how tanktech stood at that time.  Though as many Cold War era tankbattles showed, crew accounts for a LOT.

In Desert Storm, the americans also had the added benefit of gun-fire control, allowing often to see, fire and hit first.  Technologically speaking, the Abrams wasn't the "better" tank per se in design, but was the more modern one.  But the american crews where professionals, while the Iraqi where mass conscripts in a generation older tank... and that is where the big onesidedness of the Desert Storm tank battles came from.

Actually an intresting book, and I picked up a thing or two.  Yet, I still ain't convinced this is a period I want to go wargame, it just doesn't appeal to me.

No romance of history involved as I saw this war everyday on the news?