Word: saudi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers train their Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraqi targets, while aircraft carriers launch and recover squadrons of bombers and interceptors...
Even more muscle is on the way. An additional 100,000 U.S. soldiers have been earmarked for the Persian Gulf. Military commanders in Saudi Arabia say no limit has been placed on the number of troops that might be sent. George Bush says, "We must keep all our options open...
...small, heavily guarded Current Situation Room on the second floor of the Pentagon. Powell was waiting there for him. Amid the maze of projection screens, television monitors and colored telephones, they drafted the advice on military responses Cheney would offer Bush: the U.S. could -- and must -- defend Saudi Arabia with a rapid infusion of military might...
...week. "At the start of this, we said we were not going to gradually escalate our presence the way we did in Vietnam," said former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger. "Now, 90 days later, we are asking ourselves whether we should add another 100,000 to our forces in Saudi Arabia. The circumstances of military logistics force on you the very escalation you renounce." When that possibility seeped out of the Pentagon, L.B.J.'s pledge against "mindless escalation" came back to haunt the broad avenues of the capital. "Let's make sure that there really is a light...
...question is whether the Arabs would carry the fight across the border into Kuwait. The Saudi Defense Minister, Prince Sultan, said early in the crisis that his country could not be used as a launching pad for an attack on Iraq without King Fahd's approval. Commanders of the Egyptian and Syrian units have said their troops are deployed to defend Saudi Arabia and not for offensive operations. While a United Nations resolution authorizing force against Saddam Hussein might galvanize the Islamic forces, for some of them the thought of killing their "Arab brothers" is still a strong deterrent...