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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
You're not reading his strategy. His strategy was to buy time to inflict casualties. He was counting on the cities to be death traps. Again, you're not seeing what Saddam was seeing. A single vulnerable thrust with the entire LOC under constant threat, so much so that every relief convoy had to fight their way through. At one point when a single battalion, 3-7Cav, was cut off by an entire division, the Medina, it looked like his strategy was working.
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You are right ,,, i was ignoring the other side perspective and strategy .... I just finished reading Shek's documents .... I stand corrected.
@Shek...
mr shek, do you have any similiar material in regards to the other perspective and strategy during the GUlf War (1991) .... i would be very much indebted
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If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery of gunpowder with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. - Edward Gibbon
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