“The
Iranian company commander had ordered his tanks not to fire until instructed to
do so. The forty-odd M-60A1 and Centurion tanks that made up the composite
battalion was the last major force that stood between godless Communists and
the holy city of Qom…Once the Iranian tanks of the battalion were gone, there
would be no more. Winning or losing, however, did not matter to the company
commander… His only regret was that they were fighting the Lesser Satan. How
much better it would have been were it Americans who were about to die….” Sword Point by Harold
Coyle.
Sword Point, Harold Coyle's second future war book.