Word: deployments
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...fought their way through Nasiriyah and across the Euphrates, but in that city too, fighting continues as Iraqi forces try to reinforce their defenses. Even as they prepare to tackle the Republican Guard units on the outer ring of Baghdad's defenses, coalition forces are also reportedly planning to deploy more of their resources to quell ongoing Iraqi resistance in the south, which has exceeded expectations and raised problems of harassment of supply lines to the Baghdad front...
Active-duty soldiers are doing their job when they deploy, but reservists--truck drivers from California and Maryland, cops and sheriffs from Utah and Maine, helicopter pilots from Georgia, engineers from Alabama--are leaving theirs behind. Ironically, that social disruption is exactly what the Pentagon intended when it redefined the mission of the reserves after Vietnam. Bitter at having been isolated from the rest of American society, it shifted to the reserves many traditional military tasks, like police and logistics. The idea was that any major war would require calling up those part-time soldiers and force sacrifices across...
Blix says December declaration was incomplete but inspectors have not found “smoking guns” indicating weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. British begin to deploy troops. Blair says U.K. and U.S. could act against Iraq without a second U.N. resolution. The chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency says inspectors need “a few months” to finish their work. Inspectors find chemical weapon warheads unaccounted for in the declaration. Arab nations urge Saddam to leave Iraq. U.S. promises immunity if he goes into exile. Thousands of demonstrators protest potential...
...President Bush had been persuaded last summer to return to the UN for tactical reasons, to maximize support and legitimacy for a decision that the decision to deploy a quarter million troops suggests had already been taken. There's no question that the White House, and its European allies even more so, would have preferred UN authorization for war. But he was never going to make UN backing a deal breaker. Indeed, he fashioned his initial pitch to the UN on Iraq last September in form of a challenge: Back the U.S. in going to war in Iraq, or make...
...Britain joining the U.S. in invading an Arab country. It may also be aimed at making life a little easier for Arab regimes, such as Saudi Arabia, that oppose an Iraq war but look set to cooperate with the U.S. Thursday, for example, the Pentagon announced it would deploy cruise-missile bearing warships to the Red Sea, allowing their missiles to reach Iraq via Saudi airspace rather than Turkish airspace. Turkey has not yet agreed to allow its airspace to be used for missile strikes on Iraq; the clear implication of the move is that the U.S. expects no such...