Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should the U.S. and its allies pay for Operation Desert Storm? At nearly $50 million for an F-117 Stealth fighter and $2 million for an M-1 tank, the cost of the conflict could add up more swiftly than any other war in American history. By one estimate, the price tag would be as much as $28 billion for a one-month campaign and $86 billion for a six-month siege of Saddam Hussein's forces. Experts say the high-tech combat already costs $500 million a day and may reach $1 billion if heavy fighting breaks...
...tech weapons like the Stealth fighters and Patriot antimissile systems, which have become media stars of the conflict. Moreover, the U.S. will probably need to keep a large garrison force in the region. Washington may soon have to stop dithering and decide how to meet the bills for Operation Desert Storm that are coming due today -- and tomorrow...
...carrier pigeons. The Swiss do have such a unit, but they heatedly deny it will be dispatched to the gulf. "Our birds could not operate in such an environment," says a spokesman. "They would all fly back to Bern, if they weren't roasted by the desert heat or hostile fire...
...have to fight." Five days before Saddam Hussein launched his invasion, Schwarzkopf and his staff happened to be running an exercise predicated on the possibility that Iraq might overrun Kuwait. All that was necessary after that was for Schwarzkopf to polish his plan. It became the model for Operation Desert Shield...
...that the shield has become a storm, Schwarzkopf is running the show as commander of the allied forces. Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson, fancying themselves cunning battlefield tacticians, liked to direct their generals hither and thither. George Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell know better. Desert Storm, says Cheney, "is basically Norm's plan. It's fundamentally Norm's to execute...