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Though there is justified skepticism that air power alone can defeat Saddam's forces, it remains the key to allied victory. Pounded by a savage aerial assault unlike anything they experienced in their war with Iran, some Iraqi units might collapse. The U.S., Saudi and British air forces have a combined strength of more than 1,500 combat aircraft, enough to mount close to 2,000 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...
Fight a defensive war. The aim would be to survive the American aerial blitz that would open the war and then force or lure the U.S. and its allies into a series of grinding, fearsomely bloody frontal assaults on heavily dug-in Iraqi positions -- a recrudescence, 75-odd years later, of World War I-style trench warfare. That would be accompanied by some of the biggest tank battles ever fought, which would also be destructive and bloody. The allies might suffer huge losses so quickly that they would speedily sue for peace or perhaps accede to a panicky U.N. call...
Saddam could be very, very wrong. The aerial and naval bombardment of the early stages could prove quickly decisive, not only wreaking immense destruction but also breaking Baghdad's communications with the troops in Kuwait and cutting off those soldiers from food, water, ammunition and / reinforcements. Even in an eventual ground assault on well-entrenched positions, the allied forces would have enormous technical advantages: satellite intelligence pinpointing Iraqi deployments, and devices that make visibility at night almost as great as in the day, to name only two. Even in a drawn-out war, the Iraqi troops -- fighting without allies...
...sometime after Jan. 15, the date on which the U.N. has authorized the alliance to use "all necessary means" to evict Saddam's soldiers from Kuwait, with selective air raids on military targets in Iraq. But those supposedly "surgical strikes," all sources agree, could quickly escalate to a massive aerial bombing campaign carried out by 700 American attack planes flying out of ground bases in Saudi Arabia and Turkey, plus 200 more taking off from the six aircraft carriers the U.S. will have stationed in the region...
...thrown for only 716 yards and connected only four times for touchdowns. Even the Crimson's 52-37 stomping of Brown last week was accomplished mainly by the ground game. Priore, who has sat on the bench for much of the season and has completed only seven of 20 aerial attempts for 100 yards, will be given the starting nod for the second week...