Word: maneuverers
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On the day the allied air campaign began, a massive troop movement was secretly set in motion that would seal Saddam's fate. Fearing that a frontal assault on heavily dug-in Iraqi defenders could lead to thousands of allied casualties, Schwarzkopf launched the flanking maneuver he would later compare...
My second session with Saddam proved just as long as the first. Saddam invited practically the entire Iraqi leadership to the first part of the meeting. All were dressed in military uniform. Saddam pointed out that there were "hawks" and "doves" among his advisers. I wouldn't rule out the...
Before the ground offensive began, Harvard scholars debated the merit and necessity of such a military maneuver. But by the middle of this week, the success of the ground campaign left many international affairs experts who had argued against a ground war to reconcile their theories with actual events.
But the acceptance of the Soviets' peace plan, many scholars now say, would have left a devious Saddam Hussein too much room to maneuver, both diplomatically and militarily.
Most of all, as Cheney and Powell insisted to the point of monotony, a ground war would not be just a land battle but a combined land-air assault. They even talked of the ground campaign as a kind of supplement to a continued and intensified air war. The likely...