Word: 52s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line the gulf coast north and south of Kuwait City to ward off amphibious landings by U.S. Marines. Farther back, along the Kuwait-Iraq border, are Saddam's best troops: the armored and mechanized divisions of Iraq's Republican Guards, which are now being relentlessly bombed by U.S. B-52s and other allied aircraft...
...campaign will continue and perhaps intensify for days or even weeks, employing craft ranging from Apache helicopters to B-52s and all sizes in between. Once the U.S. and allied forces have won complete control of the skies -- at week's end they were close but not quite there -- they are likely to hammer ever harder at such targets as supply lines and troop concentrations...
...bombing sorties a day against Iraqi targets. The initial attack would be led by radar-evading F-117A Stealth fighter-bombers and sea-based Tomahawk cruise missiles, attacking key Iraqi military and infrastructure facilities. In the second phase of the air campaign, hulking Air Force B-52s, F-111s and F-15Es would join Navy F/A-18s and A-6s in striking Iraqi ground installations, from water-purification works to command and control centers and airfields...
Other nominees in this category were Wilson Phillips, Bruce Hornsby and the Range, the B-52s, and last year's winners, Linda Ronstadt and Aaron Neville...
...take over then is called Air-Land by Pentagon planners. As described by American commanders in Saudi Arabia, it would go like this: first the Air Force, while continuing to interdict supply lines, would switch to direct bombing and strafing of Iraqi troops, possibly including carpet bombing by B-52s based in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia to clear out Iraqi minefields. American artillery firing Copperhead shells, which use a laser-guided homing device, and multiple-rocket launchers would subject Saddam's troops to a murderous hail of ground fire. Missile-firing Cobra and Apache...