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...than were hit in all 43 days of the first war. The U.S. military's goal would be to deliver "such a shock on the system that the Iraqi regime would have to assume early on that the end is inevitable," Air Force General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told TIME last week...
Unlike the first Gulf War, in which fewer than 10% of the bombs were smart, this time close to 80% would be. And unlike the laser-guided bombs of 12 years ago, these satellite-guided weapons, known as joint direct-attack munitions (JDAMS), should be able to find their targets automatically, unimpeded by smoke or bad weather. The top targets of those JDAMS would be the military sites--command posts and critical garrisons belonging to the Republican Guard--that keep Saddam in power and the symbolic sites, like his presidential palaces, that reflect that power. "It will be highly kinetic...
...targets have been picked and planning moves along swiftly. On the U.S.S. Constellation, the ordinance department has been stocking up the Joint Direct Attack Munitions, the gray 'smart bombs' that operate with GSM locators to find their exact target. Red vested youngsters bring them up from storage and leave them lying casually on one side of the flight deck, an area they call the 'bomb farm'. From there they are loaded onto fighters. Plus, there are the dumb green bombs that just make a hole in the ground and the smarter laser guided missiles. All of them have numbers...
...This is how it must start, as a joint effort at the grassroots,” Rubin said. “I’ve seen it happen, I’ve seen the future...
...Chancellor John Silber cited the joint application of several area universities for up to $400 million in federal funding under a terrorism research initiative called “Project Bioshield” which President Bush announced during his State of the Union address...