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During the climactic hours of the gulf war, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney was briefing President Bush on the strategy of the ground assault. There was no map of the Middle East war zone readily available in the White House family quarters for Cheney to refer to. "Oh, I have a...
Even before the war, ABC had the highest-rated evening newscast (World News Tonight), the only established late-night analysis program (Nightline) and the deepest bench of star correspondents. During the war, that army of talent simply outgunned its rivals. The network boasted the most coolly authoritative anchor (Peter Jennings...
Because of the huge number of men and weapons Saddam poured into Kuwait, many military observers expected him to fight more effectively and inflict many more casualties than he did. As Schwarzkopf recounted at his wrap-up briefing, Iraqi combat forces outnumbered the coalition's 2 to 1 on the...
By Wednesday evening Schwarzkopf, in a masterly briefing on the war about to end, began by saying that Iraq had lost more than 3,000 of the 4,700 tanks it had deployed in the Kuwait theater at the start of the war -- then added, "As a matter of fact...
The Vietnam experience has been on the minds of Americans from the day George Bush dispatched troops to Saudi Arabia last August. The President took pains to vow that the mistakes of the only war the U.S. ever lost would not be repeated in the gulf. And they were not...