Word: battlefield
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...kilometers away. Bands of self-styled peshmerga, Kurdish guerillas, have been venturing down the road, looking - they say - for holdouts from the Saddam regime. But they are looters, not peshmerga - a nasty bunch reminiscent of the mobs that followed medieval armies, killing the wounded left on the battlefield and stripping them of their valuables. The Kurdish marauders tell stories of villages full of armed members of Saddam's Baath party, or of Iraqi generals. They even ask journalists to call in U.S. air strikes. Their stories are lies, though, and in private they discuss with relish how many cars there...
...unknown German officer, found on the walls of many military offices that read, "The reason the American Army does so well in war is because war is chaos and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis." Planning of course is supposed to eliminate the chaos of the battlefield, but every soldier knows that's impossible. According to Lehr, "Planning is a point of departure. It is all about flexibility...
Central Command planning cells are combing satellite images and blueprints of known tunnels and bunkers in Baghdad, drawing up target lists. The use of Global Hawk drones gives the U.S. military what commanders call persistence, a nonstop view of the battlefield, which has allowed them to track the movements of Republican Guard divisions in real time and call in air strikes as its troops try to move. The Global Hawk loiters safely out of reach of Iraqi guns for up to 24 hours at a time, transmitting live pictures of the battlefield. Still, the most critical targeting information, U.S. military...
While posted to Moscow in the mid-'90s, Donnelly covered Russia's gory conflict in Chechnya. Today she's the aviation correspondent for TIME, assigned to the relative calm of the U.S. military's nerve center in Qatar. "This was as close as I wanted to get to the battlefield now that I'm a wife and a mom of two," she says. Her dispatches on the air war and wry take on Centcom briefings have proved invaluable to TIME's coverage...
...destruction, secularists and Islamists. Life was simpler then. Events fit into stable categories, and the major players wore uniforms that allowed them to be identified from a distance. The armies were in Iraq to fight, the embedded reporters to report and the women and children to stand aside. The battlefield was defined in terms of boundaries--the southern oil fields, the Kurdish zone, the front, the rear--that promised to stay...