Word: terrains
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What these young Marines--many of them barely out of their teens--are discovering is that real-life enemy terrain is not quite like the models on which they trained. A miniature Iraq, built in the sand at their camp in Kuwait, had towns that were small patches of red with Iraqi soldiers represented by black-and-white targets. Now the towns are real and populated by flesh-and-blood Iraqi soldiers ready to kill...
...assault clearly took a toll on Ansar's militants. Politburo member Mahmood Sangarwi of the P.U.K. says 60 dead were left behind after Friday's battles. In the rocky terrain of Saturday's exchange I saw eight more slain Ansar fighters. Some had died in their bunkers; others were cut down as they fled over open ground or among relatively exposed rocky outcrops. Their corpses remained where they had fallen throughout the assault...
...Baghdad was always going to be the major confrontation of the war, since that's where Saddam Hussein's generals have concentrated their most reliable units. There, in densely populated neighborhoods, Iraqis plan to make a stand on the terrain least favorable to an invading force whose technological advantages would be partially blunted in a street-by-street battle, and whose standing orders require every conceivable precaution to avoid inflicting civilian casualties. The major question facing General Franks now is how long to wait for further ground forces, and for the decimation from a distance of the Republican Guard, before...
NOVEL STRATEGY last fall General John Keane, the Army's No. 2 officer, previewed this new kind of war for other senior officers. The old way of war, he said, "was to seize terrain, overmatch adversaries and control populations." The dearth of intelligence on the enemy's whereabouts required such a measured approach. That's no longer the case. "We have unparalleled situational awareness to understand what an enemy is doing," Keane said. "In a sense, we have an unblinking eye over the enemy formation." That near omniscience plus smart weapons, U.S. officers say, would enable the U.S. to take...
...efforts to find them. Some local communities fear the gangs are returning militia; Tan says though they may contain some ex-militia, the gangs have more basic motives: "They come to steal and they go back to where they're from because they know the people and the terrain?and they know who there has money...