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...small and too light. At the moment, Franks' troops do not satisfy the Powell doctrine of overwhelming force. Standard Army practice prescribes two heavy divisions for a campaign of this magnitude. Bush the elder fielded 540,000 U.S. troops to kick Saddam out of the desert wastes of Kuwait. For the more ambitious task of driving Saddam from power, Rumsfeld pushed Franks to fight with half that number, fewer troops and less armor than the general originally wanted. But the current battle plan is all part of the Defense Secretary's conviction that a more potent, smaller, higher-tech force...
...Iraq for 39 days before the tanks rolled in, and almost 100,000 dazed Iraqis rushed to surrender. Franks pressed for a 14-day bombing campaign this time, but Rumsfeld rejected it as old think. The accelerated push has subjected a nearly 300-mile supply line snaking back to Kuwait to repeated nighttime ambushes. Units have had to be siphoned off to protect it. Tanks have had to be turned on rear-guard guerrillas rather than on the Republican Guards dug in ahead...
...they close in on Baghdad, there are scant units in reserve to rescue them. "We're basically betting that won't happen, and it probably won't," an Army officer says. "But if it did, we'd be in trouble." The 4th Infantry and its tanks are dribbling into Kuwait and should be ready to roll by early April. The Bush war plan is predicated on momentum; slowing down wasn't part of the program. But the pause imposed by last week's reversals may prove a godsend, allowing the allies to muster extra firepower and more robust supply lines...
...Talraas, a new gunner in the Army's 82nd Airborne, had fired his first shot in combat a day earlier. After what felt like endless weeks waiting in a secure area at the Kuwait City International Airport, Talraas's company flew into Iraq on an HC-130 and landed at the newly captured airbase near Nasiriyah, before heading northwest on the road to Baghdad...
...Lexington, Mass.-based company is the prime contractor for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense system which has been used in recent weeks to intercept Iraqi missiles aimed at Kuwait City. Its shares have risen 15 percent since war began and are projected to rise further as the U.S. arsenal—which includes Ratheon Tomahawk missiles each with a price tag of one million dollars—requires restocking...