Word: armoring
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...heavy divisions for a campaign of this magnitude. Bush the elder fielded 540,000 U.S. troops to kick Saddam out of the desert wastes of Kuwait. For the more ambitious task of driving Saddam from power, Rumsfeld pushed Franks to fight with half that number, fewer troops and less armor than the general originally wanted. But the current battle plan is all part of the Defense Secretary's conviction that a more potent, smaller, higher-tech force can win in new ways. Army officers have complained throughout the planning process that Rumsfeld was relying too much on air power...
...Iraqi irregulars swarmed around the U.S. forces. The Americans were ordered to stay put and shoot at anything that moved. By midnight it was over. Two U.S. tanks were lost, blasted from behind-their most vulnerable spot-by antiaircraft guns mounted on pickups. Because of the M1's unique armor, no one on either tank was injured. And one of the tanks is recoverable...
...next rush-hour attack came right after dark the next day, but by this time the 2nd Brigade had set up "toll-booths"-heavy armor-on the roads leading from Najaf. "They attacked like morons," says Perkins. "But they kept coming." In one area guarded by two Bradleys, several hundred Iraqis were killed, according to the local battalion headquarters...
...Iraq is a crusade, then Bush, Bible safe in hand, is its knight in shining armor. The President’s trump card—faith-based initiatives—recasts the nation’s problems, economic and otherwise, as problems that can be fixed if only we say to each other, as he did in a speech last month in Tennessee, “God loves you, I love you, and you can count on us both...
...fear of his wrath and uncertainty over his demise will press his men into one last battle. Crossing the heavily mined no-man's-land near the Kurdish town of Chamchamal in recent weeks, two Iraqi deserters have brought tales of a buildup. They say Saddam is pushing heavy armor and ammunition forward. A Kurdish security official, among the first to interrogate the men, says, "They don't want to, but Baghdad is ordering these units to fight...