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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pyrrhic victory" data-source="post: 29979" data-attributes="member: 1162">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_v19/ai_4696991/pg_1Here's a 1987 article from the Washington Monthly entitled "The first Chrysler bail-out; the M1 tank".  It discusses the financial troubles of Chrysler in the 1970s and desperately needed this contract, while GM was decent financial shape.  The Army was set to pick the GM XM1 in 1976 but SecDef Rumsfeld refused to rubber stamp it, and changed the requirement to include the 120mm and turbine engine.  Along with intense lobbying, this helped Chrysler secure the contract.  As this article was written before the first Persian Gulf war, the popular perception of the Abrams in the press was still that of an Edsel with a helicopter engine in it instead of the God on tracks we've been hearing about for the last 15 or so years.</blockquote>