In early April of 2003, Lt. Col. Ernest “Rock” Marcone’s battalion of 1,000 men was about to be attacked by approximately 7,000 Iraqi soldiers – the largest counterattack in the Iraq War – while protecting a bridge on the Euphrates River considered to be “the most important piece of terrain in the theater.” The Iraqi assault was anything but clandestine – approximately 27 tanks, 75 armored personal carriers and, naturally, all those soldiers – marching right towards Marcone and his men. And yet, despite the military spending hundreds of billions of dollars on devices used to identify military troop movements …Read more »