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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...
Allied engineers will then begin cutting roads through the minefields. At that point, the Republican Guards will have to concentrate their dispersed, dug-in forces and counterattack. The day and night bombardment by B-52s and missile attacks from planes and helicopters will continue. The international forces will quickly be free to roll across Kuwait. "The Iraqis have never faced major maneuver operations," says Cordesman...
...accommodated at bases in Saudi Arabia and the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The agreement was no surprise in the case of loyal ally Britain, but a very considerable surprise on the part of the formerly aloof government in Madrid. France agreed to allow the B-52s to fly over its territory. Being France, however, it attached conditions -- among them that the B-52s not carry nuclear bombs...
...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...