{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Famous Tank Battles","title":"73 Easting: Episode 9 — Thirty-Eight Days of Air","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":769,"description":"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, communications, bridges, supply lines, artillery, and fielded forces in Kuwait and southern Iraq. This episode explains how airpower weakened Iraqi movement, morale, and coordination while creating the conditions for the ground offensive. It also makes clear that bombing did not eliminate the need for armored combat. Iraqi tanks, bunkers, minefields, artillery, and Republican Guard formations still had to be found and defeated on the ground. Listeners learn how Desert Storm combined air supremacy with reconnaissance, engineers, artillery, logistics, and heavy armor to create a faster, more destructive form of mechanized warfare. For more military history writing and books, visit MilitaryAuthor.me, and for magazines, galleries, and a massive archive of military photos and video, visit Trackpads.com.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/wYewAYU5XIO9ylvaLCdOZIe8qSpr8fI4jfh__yALqu4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MmNj/ZDA1NGQ1OGE3NTg0/NGVhMzRhMDBkN2Qy/MzM4Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}