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Schwarzkopf did not find it easy to sell the idea to skeptical U.S. tactical commanders when he first proposed it last November. They argued that more than 150,000 soldiers could not be moved that far that fast, with all their armor, artillery and 60 days of ammunition and supplies, over a desert with only rudimentary roads. "I got a lot of guff," he recalls. "They thought that Schwarzkopf had lost his marbles." So stiff was their resistance that Schwarzkopf ordered his logistics commander, Major General William Pagonis, to sign his name to a pledge that the troops and their...
Nowhere was the sight of the French tricolor flying above advancing armor greeted with more relief than at allied headquarters in the gulf. When Desert Storm began, there had been fears that the 12,600-strong French contingent, reluctant to accept U.S. leadership, might stand aloof from the coalition's integrated command structure, much as France does in NATO, perhaps even disdaining to fight. During the countdown to hostilities, President Francois Mitterrand had courted British and American anger by launching an eleventh- hour peace proposal that would have handed Saddam Hussein a diplomatic victory by rewarding an Iraqi withdrawal with...
...allied terms, which spokesman Marlin Fitzwater spelled out shortly after. The time for a pullout was lengthened to a week because some allies thought the original 96 hours was simply impossible; Washington hoped seven days still was not enough time for Saddam to pull out all his tanks, other armor and artillery. Rather astonishingly, the allied firmness set off sympathetic reverberations in Moscow. Gorbachev spoke with Bush by phone for 33 minutes Thursday and with both the President and Secretary of State James Baker for 72 minutes before the allied ultimatum on Friday. Possibly Gorbachev realized saving Saddam...
These direct attacks on Iraqi forces have already destroyed as much as a third of their armor and artillery. Warfare will never be foolproof, and air power alone has yet to win a war. But once the ground attack begins, allied pilots will learn soon enough whether their efforts have greatly improved the chances for a swift breakthrough...
...prepared for a chemical attack, the allied forces are ready. Automated alarm systems deployed along the front will warn of chemical emissions. Any allied advance into Kuwait or Iraq will be accompanied by German-made vehicles called Fuchs. These bizarre-looking rovers, which have chemical probes sprouting from their armor, will move ahead of the troops, sniffing for trouble...