Word: plannersally
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Pentagon planners are resisting pressure from the Kuwaiti royal family to include Kuwaiti troops in the first wave of any ground attack to free their country. U.S. officials fear that the returning Kuwaitis might slaughter every Palestinian in sight. Many of the exiles believe that Palestinians living in the emirate...
Here, finally, was a Saddam surprise, an Iraqi action that U.S. contingency planners had minimized before the war began. When Iraqi troops began pumping oil into the Persian Gulf from Sea Island, an offshore loading facility near Al-Ahmadi last week, Baghdad's motives were instantly clear to Saudi Arabia...
No, say Pentagon planners. Publicly, U.S. officials have refused to rule out going nuclear. "We'd prefer to keep Saddam guessing," says an Administration source. But Washington decided early in the confrontation with Iraq not to supply nuclear weapons to the ground troops in Saudi Arabia. Nearly 400 ! nuclear warheads...
With more than 100,000 men, the Guards make up about a fifth of the 555,000- man Iraqi army. But they are the best trained, the best equipped and the most highly motivated of all Iraqi forces. They are well outfitted with Soviet T-72M tanks, self-propelled 155...
For military planners, the apparent success of their high-tech equipment in the early weeks of the battle is sweet vindication. Though Operation Desert Storm still relies in part on armaments of Vietnam War and even World War II vintage, the Pentagon has staked its reputation on its state-of...