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As war began last week, the American army in Kuwait received a remarkable order from the brass: stow your flags. The fearsome steel coil of tanks and artillery and Bradley fighting vehicles was told to enter enemy territory humbly, stripped of all banners, including the Stars and Stripes. This seemed...
The most urgent job would be the search for hidden biological and chemical weapons. Special-forces teams from the Navy SEALs, the Air Force, the Marines and the Army's Delta Force would hunt down and secure such sites. Major General John Doesburg, who heads the Soldier Biological and Chemical...
War is mostly waiting for something to happen. After the first heavy 36 hours of this war, when Marines rolled through southeastern Iraq destroying Saddam's 51st division and the U.S. Army powered up the western flank, the last two days have been less dramatic. A supply column now runs...
The Marine unit I am with, Kilo Company from Battalion 34, left late Saturday from Basra International Airport which it had helped take earlier that day, and pushed west across the muddy plain and then north. A few Iraqi pickup trucks passed the convoy along the main highway. Men waved...
How's the war going? According to Donald Rumsfeld, pretty good indeed. Day Three of "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was all about control. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein may be losing control of his country; at the same time, U.S. forces took control of some important oilfields in southern...