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- From: eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
- Subject: Re: desert storm operations
- Message-ID: <BxtKDB.1v0@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: FOA, Linkoping, Sweden
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:24:47 GMT
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- From eriks@lin.foa.se (Erik Svensson FOA2)
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- >From Fengxi Zhou <fengxi@prancer.eche.ualberta.ca>
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- >: Yes we walked all over them but we were also very lucky and in some
- >: cases they were very stupid. If Saddam had invaded Saudi Arabia in August
- >: 1990 before we had sufficient troops there the story would have been
- >: vey different.
- >:
- >The progress of the war would be different but the outcome not. That way
- >Saddam exposed his huge flank to Marine attack which is a US specialty. There
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- Care to brush up on your (recent) history here? The marines didn't go around
- in a flanking manouver, the army did. Also, Saddams assumption that the
- coalition couldn't navigate through the desert west of kuwait isn't all that
- bad. According to Iraqi Army experience you couldn't navigate with any accuracy
- there and if it hadn't been for GPS the coalition would ahve had great
- problems.
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- --
- Erik Svensson Research Officer
- Guided Weapons Division National Defense Research Establishment (FOA)
- Stockholm Sweden
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- net.address: eriks@fenix.lin.foa.se
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- "Another casualty of applied meta-physics!" -- Hobbes
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