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...planners are using computer programs like Bugsplat, which predicts the blast pattern of a bomb, to show which aircraft approaches generate the least collateral damage. On most bombs, fuses can be set to detonate after the bomb has burrowed into its target, which can further reduce collateral damage. "War is inherently violent. People are going to die," Myers said last week. Americans should not look to the relatively antiseptic wars for Kuwait and Kosovo as a guide. If it were to come down to fighting block by block in Baghdad, the images could be brutal. "We have to be mentally...
More than a year ago, when President George W. Bush and Rumsfeld first asked Franks for a plan to topple Saddam Hussein, Franks replied that he would need five divisions and five aircraft carriers to make it work. A dismayed Rumsfeld famously sent the plan back two or three times, asking the four-star general to shrink the forces in half, or even more. Following the Powell doctrine that all Vietnam-era generals swear by, Franks wanted an overpowering force to make sure America would prevail. Rumsfeld wanted him to do it faster and lighter, in part because he didn...
...elder Bush believes that out of the dark war clouds of the moment another rainbow is coming. In a year he plans to celebrate his 80th birthday with another parachute jump and a few years after that to stand on the bridge of the new aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush as it heads to sea on its maiden voyage. He's not all that worried after...
...done, aircraft carriers must carry a lot more than aircraft...
...just 60 miles southeast of Baghdad, without taking any civilian lives - though forces were met with Iraqi ground fire. According to the United States Central Command, Iraqi defense has fired at US planes least 110 times since January, although most of the fire came from ineffectual 'Triple As', Anti aircraft artillery guns. Tompkins says it does not really bother the pilots. "They just don't have the equipment or may be they don't want to use it," he says. "There has been no firing that has come even close...