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Hosted by Dr Jason Edwards · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 261 episodes
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Famous Tank Battles is a multi-season history podcast series that follows the story of armored warfare from its uncertain beginnings in the First World War to the fast-moving, technology-driven battles of the late twentieth century. Across the full series, listeners move from the muddy shock of Cambrai through the desert campaigns of North Africa, the giant armored clashes of the Second World War, the hard lessons of the Arab-Israeli wars, and finally into the era of thermal sights, modern fire control, and high-speed mechanized combat. The goal is not simply to tell battle stories, but to explain why these battles mattered, how they were fought, and what they revealed about the changing character of war.Each season is built around one famous tank battle or armored campaign, allowing the series to go beyond broad summaries and instead explore the fighting in depth. That means the podcast does not stop with a basic retelling of who won and who lost. It looks closely at the commanders,
Dr Jason Edwards hosts Famous Tank Battles, a history show with 261 episodes published.
Why 73 Easting Matters closes the season by judging the battle as far more than a tank duel in the desert. The episode brings together reconnaissance doctrine, mission command, thermal technology, Abrams and Bradley crew
Medina Ridge and the 100 Hours follows the final heavy blow of VII Corps as the ground campaign neared its cease-fire. On February 27, 1991, after 73 Easting and Objective Norfolk, American armored forces struck the Medi
Fratricide in the Dark tackles one of the most difficult subjects in the 73 Easting and Objective Norfolk story: friendly fire during fast armored combat. This episode examines how darkness, dust, burning wrecks, thermal
Objective Norfolk was the huge night battle that followed 73 Easting and is often overshadowed by it. This episode follows armored forces advancing through darkness, dust, burning Iraqi vehicles, scattered prisoners, sur
The Pass-Through follows the morning of February 27, 1991, when the 1st Infantry Division moved through the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment to continue the attack against remaining Tawakalna and 12th Armored Division forces.
Four Hours at 73 Easting measures what the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment achieved before the battle ended around 1715 on February 26, 1991. Official accounts credit the regiment with destroying at least twenty-nine Iraqi t
Fire Support in the Storm restores the guns and helicopters to the center of the 73 Easting story. The 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment’s tank and Bradley crews fought the visible battle, but artillery and aviation helped pre
Iron, Eagle, and Ghost brings the Battle of 73 Easting down from corps-level maps to the troop fights that soldiers actually experienced. This episode follows the cavalrymen, tank crews, Bradley crews, scouts, gunners, d
73 Easting is the centerpiece of the season and one of the most studied armored battles of the Gulf War. Around 4 p.m. on February 26, 1991, the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment collided with the main Iraqi defense along a no
Past the Limit of Advance examines the risk decision that carried the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment toward its defining battle. With Iraqi artillery falling and enemy positions ahead, leaders had to decide whether stopping
The 70 Easting line was an invisible map boundary that became a real tactical problem in the middle of the storm. Eagle and Ghost Troops halted at the limit of advance under ineffective Iraqi artillery fire, caught betwe
68 Easting was the first sharp warning that the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment had reached the Tawakalna security zone. This episode follows Eagle Troop’s early contact with Iraqi prepared defenses, bunkers, tanks in revetm
Objective Collins marked the threshold where the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment moved from approach march into dangerous contact. This episode follows the regiment east of Objective Collins, screening ahead of the 1st Infan
Turn East follows the crucial moment when Lieutenant General Frederick Franks committed VII Corps to the 90-degree turn that would bring it into the Iraqi armored defense. After the western sweep, the corps had to align
Busayyah was a Desert Storm battle often overshadowed by 73 Easting, but it played an important role in clearing the path for VII Corps’ eastward turn. This episode follows the 1st Armored Division as it attacked Iraqi p
73 Easting could happen, the coalition had to solve the old armored warfare problem of mines, obstacles, trenches, wire, and prepared defenses. This episode follows the 1st Infantry Division as it breached the Iraqi line
The ground war opened on February 24, 1991, with coalition forces attacking across a front that stretched from the Persian Gulf deep into the western desert. This episode follows the first movements of the famous 100-hou
The coalition air campaign that began on January 17, 1991, shaped the battlefield before VII Corps ever reached the Republican Guard. For thirty-eight days, aircraft struck Iraqi command and control, air defenses, commun
Abrams tanks, Bradley cavalry fighting vehicles, and thermal sights gave American crews a powerful advantage at 73 Easting, but this episode avoids treating technology as a magic answer. The M1A1 Abrams brought protectio
Training was one of the decisive weapons at 73 Easting, and this episode shows how that weapon was forged before the Gulf War began. The focus falls on Eagle Troop, Captain H. R. McMaster, and the hard professional cultu
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Famous Tank Battles is hosted by Dr Jason Edwards. The show is categorised under history (society) and has published 261 episodes.
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