Word: armors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...violation of diplomatic norms in Kuwait last week as a pretext to launch a military attack. That is not a real option yet; the U.S. commander in the gulf, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, says shipments are behind schedule, and it will be a month before all the heavy armor en route is actually delivered. While its power builds, Washington intends to pursue the diplomatic and economic tracks until they have either visibly begun to strangle Saddam or been proved a failure. Meanwhile, Washington is debating some unsettled questions...
RIGHT now, Saddam commands a million-man standing army, the fourth largest in the world. Iraq has some 6000 tanks, an armored force second only to that of the Soviet Union. Even legitimate questions about the quality of its soldiers and the modernity of its armor do not obscure the sheer enormity of Iraq's military power...
...fierce, glaring authority of Doge Andrea Gritti; the plump self-assurance of the Florentine historian Benedetto Varchi; the saurian cunning of old Pope Paul III, huddled in his velvet cape; and the inflexible determination of the military commander Francesco Maria della Rovere, whose carapace of bombshell-black armor is painted with a freedom and virtuosity that looks forward to Velazquez and, beyond him, to Manet -- to scan these portraits is to realize what an appetite for human character Titian had, and what a gallery of it he created...
...tons of equipment have followed. But senior officers say they still need another month or two of rapid buildup to reach adequate defensive strength. Only last week, 22 days after Operation Desert Shield got under way, did the first M-1 tanks, which would be essential for fighting Iraqi armor, arrive at Saudi ports...
...would try to minimize casualties by avoiding a direct lunge into Kuwait and thus a head-on clash with Iraqi armor in the narrow coastal strip. An American offensive would rely heavily on aerial bombing; ground troops would probably flank Iraqi forces by swinging 100 miles inland and stage night + attacks, for which they are much better trained and equipped. Admiral William Crowe, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has no doubt that the U.S. would defeat Iraq -- "but at a terrible price...