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...land on which Scheme Z will be built has for many years served as a trasportation corridor. Most of the land is undeveloped, cluttered with sand pits and railroad tracks...
...theory. And to that end Saddam and his military commanders have applied the experience they gained in their eight years of defensive battles against massed Iranian troops. Their highly skilled combat engineers have turned the Kuwaiti and Iraqi borders with Saudi Arabia into a Maginot Line in the sand. In an area about the size of West Virginia the Iraqis have poured 540,000 of their million-man army and 4,000 of their 6,000 tanks, along with thousands of other armored vehicles and artillery pieces...
These forces are deeply dug in behind layers of defensive barriers 40 miles wide. Bulldozers have piled sand walls up to 40 ft. high. Behind them is a network of ditches, some rigged with pipes to deliver oil that will be set on fire, and concrete tank traps. Behind those are miles of razor wire and at least 500,000 mines...
...encounter unexpected trouble they usually do not just slow down; they crash. The Pentagon has not shown any TV pictures of "smart" bombs flying a perfect path into the side of a camel. But as the Scud hits have demonstrated, mistakes do happen. One aircraft expert says the desert sand has wreaked havoc with the British Tornado jets, lodging in the turbine engine blades and melting into glass. If blades on U.S. jets are faring better, it may be because enginemakers imported tons of Saudi sand for tests several years ago and modified their equipment accordingly...
...possible to foil the world's most sophisticated -- and expensive -- weapons with countermeasures, some of which are literally dirt cheap. They include burning smoke pots to deflect heat-seeking missiles, draping targets with pictures of bomb craters to discourage further attack, and hunkering down in caves and sand dunes to wait out the blitz. In the end, no electronic marvel is going to liberate Kuwait. That is a job that will probably fall to the ultimate biological weapon...