Word: saddamism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAPTION: WHERE SADDAM'S BEST WEAPONS COME FROM
...biggest questions were how many more battles Saddam Hussein might initiate and on what scale -- and why he had ever gone on the attack at all. The Iraqi army fights most effectively from behind barbed wire, minefields and trenches like those it has dug in Kuwait. Why pull any troops and tanks out of the bunkers and holes in the sand, in which they had been fairly effectively hiding from air attack, and expose them to the full fury of allied air and artillery bombardment...
Riyadh, Washington and London buzzed with speculation about Saddam's strategy. The most popular theories...
...Saddam was seeking a propaganda victory. He hoped to buck up the morale of both his populace and his troops after two weeks of unrelenting air bombardment by showing them, and the world, that he could still put up a fight and even momentarily take the initiative...
...Khafji was a probing attack, perhaps the precursor of more. Saddam's forces have no spy satellites and have been unable or unwilling even to send reconnaissance planes into Saudi airspace. The only way Iraqi generals can find out how many troops, artillery and tanks are massing at which spots along the border is to send troops across to engage them...