Word: deserts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Washington was increasingly confident that it could contain any military thrust from Iraq. As Operation Desert Shield, which features the largest airlift in history, continued, the day when the U.S. and allied forces would have sufficient strength to conduct offensive operations against Iraq was rapidly approaching, especially since Defense Secretary Dick Cheney has persuaded other gulf countries like Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates to provide logistical facilities. In less than two weeks, the U.S. has sent nearly 100,000 troops and a billion pounds of supplies, the equivalent, Pentagon officials boasted, of moving a community the size...
...would the hardship of a prolonged confrontation be confined to Iraq. Although Bush, much like Lyndon Johnson during Vietnam, has sought to downplay the domestic costs of Desert Shield, he will not be able to do so for long. The fear of war alone was enough to push financial markets in the U.S., Europe and Japan into a deep slide, a mere foretaste of the worldwide economic disaster that would occur if an all-out war erupted, involving not just the U.S. and Iraq but Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries -- perhaps including Israel -- as well. The call...
...That's good news for you and me, but as for Brack . . . he smiles every time he thinks about the vacant house on the Delaware shore where he was planning to spend his summer vacation. "I wanted sun and sand," he says, shrugging. Surveying the endless Saudi desert, he adds, "I'll pretend it's a very wide beach...
...young sergeant is lying prone in the sand, the butt of his M-16 rifle tucked against his shoulder. It is late afternoon in the Saudi Arabian desert. The sergeant's squad is manning a defensive line while several officers scout the top of a nearby hill. The officers are deciding where to position antitank weapons that could turn the road below into a shooting gallery if an Iraqi armored column moves along...
...soldiers from the 82nd Airborne's Second Infantry Brigade are in their third day of training in the desert heat. Before their arrival they had been warned that they might go into combat as soon as their planes landed. Now they are finding it hard to adjust to the waiting game as U.S. troops stream into the country and Iraq's army settles into defensive positions in Kuwait. "A lot of my men feel like we're wasting time," says the sergeant. "That's the basic consensus: Let's get the show on the road or get out of here...