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...shovel I scoop out means I might save an arm," says Private Gregory White, 20, of Los Angeles, the 82nd Airborne. "The next shovel means I might save a leg." The initial hole is called a "hasty" or a "run and dive." With each passing day, the hasties are dug farther down, so that by now they are armpit deep and flanked by sandbags. This is low-tech war of the most vital kind...
...priority list of targets. At the top, along with command-and-control facilities, were military production centers, power and water supplies, and bridges and roads leading south to Kuwait. Most of those have been destroyed. The main bombing wave is moving south, onto the Iraqi army that is dug in facing Saudi Arabia...
Attacking a tank in the desert is far less ambiguous than picking out one building in a crowded neighborhood for demolition. The campaign against Iraq's dug-in divisions is a textbook exercise in air warfare: hundreds of planes are in the sky every day, with F-15s flying a protective patrol high above, while attack planes blast away at tanks, artillery pieces and ammunition dumps below...
...house, street-to- street fighting," says the Palestinian. He confirms that Iraqis have mined refineries, government buildings and large homes to prevent the allies from establishing forward positions. In the process, citizens have been left without shelter. "I have seen with my own eyes that Iraqi soldiers are dug in everywhere, and they will use the local population as shields," he adds...
...ground offensive until at least 30%, and preferably 50%, of the Guards' fighting power is destroyed from the air. But how will they know when that point is reached? Washington officials admit they are having trouble gauging how much damage bombing is doing to the widely dispersed and well-dug- in Guards...