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Fight a defensive war. The aim would be to survive the American aerial blitz that would open the war and then force or lure the U.S. and its allies into a series of grinding, fearsomely bloody frontal assaults on heavily dug-in Iraqi positions -- a recrudescence, 75-odd years later, of World War I-style trench warfare. That would be accompanied by some of the biggest tank battles ever fought, which would also be destructive and bloody. The allies might suffer huge losses so quickly that they would speedily sue for peace or perhaps accede to a panicky U.N. call...
...military attack on the republic's broadcasting center early Sunday left 14 people dead. Since the attack, Lithuanians have built concrete barricades around parliament and dug an anti-tank trench behind...
...many tribes is the crusade to have relics and remains of Indian ancestors removed from museums and returned to the tribes for burial. Some tribes believe the soul cannot rest until the body is returned to nature, by burial or cremation. Hundreds of thousands of Indian corpses were dug from their graves and carted away for display. "Grave robbing was so widespread that virtually every tribe in the country has been victimized," says Pawnee Indian Walter Echo-Hawk, staff attorney at the Native American Rights Fund...
...imponderables range from the nitty and literally gritty (how badly will the fine desert sand foul the gears of tanks and the breeches of rifles?) to the conceptual (could U.S. troops bypass the dug-in Iraqi forces in Kuwait with a flanking attack?). They include questions of psychology: Is the Iraqi army battle hardened from eight years of war against Iran, or battle weary? Would the troops on the front line, many of whom are thought to be ill-trained draftees who know they are cannon fodder, fight hard or give up quickly? For that matter, how battle ready...
...additional 10,000 U.S. troops also arrived in the Persian Gulf, Hall said. The 350,000-strong multinational force now includes about 250,000 Americans, most of them dug into the Saudi Arabian desert facing Iraqi troops...