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...gulf are not yet strong enough to mount an overpowering offensive against the 430,000 Iraqi troops in and around Kuwait, Bush clearly counts military force as one of those options. He has pledged to liberate Kuwait and restore its government, which means that if necessary Operation Desert Shield can become Desert Sword. The buildup and the war that may ensue have cast the spotlight on two men who may be the most important policymakers in the Bush Administration: Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). Already these Pentagon partners have...
...pair's organizational and diplomatic skills have been strikingly evident since the earliest moments of Desert Shield, which began only a few hours after Iraqi tanks rolled into Kuwait on Aug. 2. Early the next morning, Cheney tucked a top-secret briefing file under his arm and walked to the small, heavily guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush: the U.S. could -- and must -- defend Saudi Arabia with...
Billowing plumes of dust high into the air, a column of heavy tanks rumbles across the flat Arabian desert just south of the Kuwaiti frontier. The M-60s are American-made, but their crews are Egyptian. Five miles away, a cluster of British-built Chieftain tanks are poised with their guns pointed toward the border. This detachment is part of a Kuwaiti army brigade that managed to escape the Iraqi invaders. "Our mission," says Colonel Ibrahim Al-Wasmi, the unit's deputy commander, "is to return to Kuwait...
...vast inland desert, empty until a few weeks ago, is filling with the troops and equipment of 11 Arab and Islamic armies committed to the liberation of Kuwait. On paper they make up a formidable military force: 60,000 Saudis, 10,000 men of the other gulf states, armored divisions from Egypt and Syria, infantry regiments from Bangladesh, Morocco and Pakistan. By joining publicly with the U.S. and its European allies, they have already made their most important contribution by proving that the confrontation with Iraq is not a neocolonial attack on the Arab nation. But if a war begins...
...Egyptian armored units have been slow to arrive, and only 300 tanks are on station in the desert so far. Those are mostly older M-60s, slower and packing less punch than the new M-1 Abrams. One big advantage: Egyptian forces have been training with the U.S. army for several years in biannual Bright Star maneuvers in Egypt...