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Carroll says he expects the U.S. to achieve victory quickly and decisively. And with 475,000 men and women already in the Persian Gulf, the military still has 1.6 million reservists that can be called upon to serve...
Today, Pinney continues to work for peace around the globe--he is active with the Cambridge Peace Commission--but he still won't be walking the streets protesting U.S. military involvement in the Persian Gulf...
...country is plunged once again into an escalating military conflict on the other side of the globe, many have begun to compare today's protests against the Persian Gulf war to the anti-Vietnam War movement that eventually snowballed into the massive, violent protests of the late...
...deeply in Kuwait. So far there have been only minor skirmishes on the surface, though one on Saturday yielded the first known prisoners of the war. A dozen Iraqis were captured when the frigate U.S.S. Nicholas and some helicopters joined to assault and "neutralize" Kuwaiti drilling platforms in the Persian Gulf that the Iraqis had converted into antiaircraft positions. There were also some exchanges of fire between Iraqis and U.S. Marines across the Kuwaiti-Saudi border and some casualties, but no sizable battles...
...probable U.S. and allied attack strategy: U.S. and Arab troops may stage frontal assaults to keep Iraqi troops pinned down and launch a secondary thrust along the Persian Gulf coast. But the main assault could be a left hook: an attack around the western tip of Kuwait into Iraq proper, looping back to cut off the dug-in troops. As for tactics, the primary way to breach the fortifications would be simply to try to blast a way through with aerial bombs. If that does not work, combat engineers would use "line charges" -- bombs thrown out on cables to form...