Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Preparations for a possible counterstrike began almost immediately, Kelsen said. Another roommate, a member of a reserve unit of Israeli paratroopers, received word of a sudden callup through a coded radio broadcast...
Saddam has said that his ambition is to become an Arab Bismarck. Like 19th century Germany, the Arab world shares a common language and culture but is splintered politically. Saddam dreams of welding it into a single, powerful unit -- with himself at the head, of course. The Iraqi leader can make tactical retreats, but he will try to solve the Kuwait crisis in whatever way seems to him most likely to promote those goals, or at least deal them the smallest setback...
BODY RECOVERY. This unit is trained to deal with the most gruesome aspect of war: the recovery and identification of bodies. Heavy fighting could force soldiers to bury corpses temporarily in the Saudi sands to await exhumation by the unit and shipment home. In the event of a chemical or biological attack, the specialists would have to cleanse the bodies by washing them with decontaminants...
PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE. Another unit will attempt, primarily through radio broadcasts and air-dropped leaflets, to "alter the psychological environment of the battlefield and affect audiences far beyond the confines of the battlefield area." Translation: spread disinformation among the enemy. This unit would also start a free newspaper in liberated Kuwait. If hostilities are carried into Iraq, PSYOP will discourage the civilian population from supporting Saddam's army...
...deadline for Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait expires this week, he fears that American and allied planes will bomb Baghdad and that his hospital will be overwhelmed with the wounded. "It will be a disaster," says Roubayee, who once served as a medic in an Iraqi army tank unit. "Doctors are very anxious. You have patients dying in front of you, and there is nothing you can do about it. We hope there will...