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...enemy we're fighting," said Army Lieut. General William Wallace last week, "is different from the one we'd war-gamed against." At least the commander of V Corps and the highest-ranking officer at the front was honest in assessing one of the most unsettling battlefield surprises: Iraqis are resisting vigorously. And they're doing so in ways that seem to have caught Washington off guard--that is, by embedding paramilitary forces behind the front lines to engage in guerrilla tactics that can't win the war but can dangerously drag it out. If the Pentagon's plan...
Interviews with soldiers both on and off the battlefield make great color stories that should undoubtedly be a part of war coverage. But in this war, the color has blinded the American public from seeing the gravity of the conflict. If coverage of this war is to ask the tough questions that a democracy requires of its journalists, the reliance on the novelty of embedded journalists must end. Reporters must respect our fighting men and women by moving away from sensationalist stories, and focus instead on the global issues that will remain with us for years to come...
Although the battlefield produced the usual fog of conflicting reports, at least one thing was made clear with the first salvo: the principal target of Gulf War II is not the Iraqi military but Saddam himself. Inside the U.S. war rooms, quickly decapitating the Iraqi regime is seen as critical to bringing about the destruction of the enemy. "We want to turn the Iraqi military into a chicken with its head cut off," a senior Navy official says. Saddam "might be able to strike back, but it will be uncoordinated and ultimately fruitless." Defense sources say that U.S. forces will...
...forces close to the capital. Among the soldiers moving toward Baghdad last week, the specter of unconventional warfare was never far from their minds, as they endured the heat of their biochemical suits while riding in tanks and armored personnel vehicles. "We fully expect to face a dirty battlefield at some point," says Colonel Daniel Allyn, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade. "I don't look forward to the fight of that kind, but I am confident it will not defeat...
...hunt for WMD goes on, but he says the priority at this time is the military campaign. But he did say "there are ominous signs on the battlefield" that regime has plans to use bio/chem. weapons. "Our forces continue to find chemical protection suits, gas masks and atropine. And we've found a lot more than we?re comfortable with...