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...would be. And unlike the laser-guided bombs of 12 years ago, these satellite-guided weapons, known as joint direct-attack munitions (JDAMS), should be able to find their targets automatically, unimpeded by smoke or bad weather. The top targets of those JDAMS would be the military sites--command posts and critical garrisons belonging to the Republican Guard--that keep Saddam in power and the symbolic sites, like his presidential palaces, that reflect that power. "It will be highly kinetic," an Air Force planner says with grim understatement...
...second Gulf War. It could get extremely messy, with the carnage broadcast instantly around the world. "What appears on al-Jazeera TV in the region is going to determine success maybe even more so than the actions on the ground," says retired Marine General Anthony Zinni, who ran Central Command from 1997 to 2000. "All the explanations afterwards won't counter those first images...
...quick, funny, very private, ferociously hardworking and, everyone says, a rare leader of soldiers, particularly enlisted troops. He is also, at least in public, the consummate strong and silent type, the good soldier who shuns the limelight in marked contrast to some of his predecessors at Central Command. All this makes Franks, 57, ideally suited as the go-to general for the second Bush Administration. Retired Admiral Archie Clemins, who commanded the Pacific Fleet when Franks was serving in Korea six years ago, noted that "a lot of generals have a media persona, and then they have their real persona...
...careful to prevent loss of civilian lives or vital infrastructure. Last week, they used precision-guided weapons to target five underground military communication sites just 60 miles southeast of Baghdad, without taking any civilian lives - though forces were met with Iraqi ground fire. According to the United States Central Command, Iraqi defense has fired at US planes least 110 times since January, although most of the fire came from ineffectual 'Triple As', Anti aircraft artillery guns. Tompkins says it does not really bother the pilots. "They just don't have the equipment or may be they don't want...
There are Jordan-lovers and Jordan-haters that exist out there, just as there are Kobe-lovers and Kobe-haters and Iverson-lovers and Iverson-haters. All the great ones command dichotomy. But no matter whether you’re rooting for or against Jordan, one thing is for certain: he defies athletic reason. Jordan is not only the best basketball player of all-time but also the best professional athlete. Perhaps Tiger Woods will give Jordan a run for his money by the time Tiger reaches 40. But certainly in the modern...