Complex sentence: Intelligence indicated that the British and Australians were facing the North Korean 17th Tank Brigade, equipped with twenty tanks and although the North Koreans had suffered heavy casualties during the previous fighting on the Taeryong River, Coad was forced to adopt more cautious tactics as a result.
Split into simpler sentences: Intelligence indicated that the British and Australians were facing the North Korean 17th Tank Brigade, equipped with twenty tanks. Although the North Koreans had suffered heavy casualties during the previous fighting on the Taeryong River, Coad was now forced to adopt more cautious tactics as a result.