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...through bitter experience to associate trouble in the Middle East and the Muslim world with pain at the gas pump--from the 1973 Arab-Israeli war and oil embargo to the 1979 oil shock after the Iranian revolution and the price jump that followed Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait...
...ground war in Afghanistan, when it begins in earnest, won't look like the one in Iraq or Kuwait. Rather than massed troops along front lines, U.S. forces will need to spot small agile targets, stage lightning-quick strikes and then get out quickly...
...Army psyops specialists have found that their most effective weapon often is the truth. The 4th Psyops Groups, for example, launched a massive psyops campaign during the 1991 Desert Storm War that proved effective. Millions of leaflets were air dropped on Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait urging them to give up and giving them instructions on how to surrender. Commando Solo broadcast straight news to Iraqi soldiers along with a surrender hotline: a two-way frequency they could call with their field radios to reach an Arabic-speaking officer who'd give directions on how to give up safely. Military officers...
...forecast the U.S. economy spend much of their time looking backward for data and precedents. So when TIME's Board of Economists gathered in New York City, its members referred often to the last time the nation was steeling itself for war: 1990-91, between the invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. Back then, a relatively quick military victory helped spark the longest economic expansion in U.S. history. In today's protracted campaign against terrorism, few expect a decisive win that could trigger a quick rebound...
...that 2.5 million BPD come from the Persian Gulf. Not surprisingly, we get 1.6 million BPD from Saudi Arabia, our primary supplier in the region. Quite surprisingly, we buy 0.6 million BPD from Iraq, presumably under restrictive aid-for-oil programs. The remainder is supplied by nations like Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, making the Persian Gulf account for 22 percent of U.S. imports. Interestingly, this means that one of the primary justifications of the Gulf War—that we are dependent on oil from Kuwait—is entirely spurious, as these consumption patterns roughly...