Word: desertic
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...deployment is too small and too light. At the moment, Franks' troops do not satisfy the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force. Standard Army practice prescribes two heavy divisions for a campaign of this magnitude. Bush the elder fielded 540,000 U.S. troops to kick Saddam out of the desert wastes of Kuwait. For the more ambitious task of driving Saddam from power, Rumsfeld pushed Franks to fight with half that number, fewer troops and less armor than the general originally wanted. But the current battle plan is all part of the Defense Secretary's conviction that a more potent, smaller...
...River. At 3am on Monday, they got the order to move through the town and secure two bridges. The first thing Talraas noticed as dawn broke were the palm trees and lush green fields. "It almost reminded me of an old Vietnam movie," he says. "We came into the desert, but this was very, very green...
...Multiple Iraqis in the quarry with weapons," said the voice over the radio, "and they're not surrendering." It's Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., Day One of "shock and awe." For hours I have traveled north across the desert with the Marines of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. Packed tightly into an amphibious assault vehicle--Marines call it an Amtrak--we head toward our destination, just outside the strategic city of Basra in southern Iraq. The mission will be to cut off troops of the Iraqi army's 51st Division. But first we found ourselves...
...move into Iraq until Friday morning, and Thursday was marked by frequent gas-attack alarms, always false but each of them requiring us to rush into our chemical suits. All through Thursday night, bedded down in sleeping bags on the desert floor, we could hear the huge rumble of U.S. artillery pounding Safwan Hill, just over the border. Sometime around 1 a.m., we were awakened and began to pull...
...Iraq rumbles through its second week, the original war on terror?against remnants of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan?still seethes. U.S. forces opened a new front against pro-Taliban fighters last week, this time just outside Kabul. Operation Desert Lion, as it has been dubbed, is targeting suspected pro-Taliban forces in the snowy mountain range between the capital and the U.S. air base at Bagram, 50 kilometers away. In southern Afghanistan, 600 troops backed by choppers and fighter planes began a second week of scouring villages and mountain caves for rebels. Soldiers have taken nine men into custody...