Word: command
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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After Saddam's threat, the Israeli military command -- which is all too aware that Iraqi missiles are only five minutes from Tel Aviv -- quickly put its forces on an even higher state of alert. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We are preparing to forestall the threat, prevent it and if, heaven forbid, he does in fact attack, to retaliate...
...Saddam into a hero of the Arab masses, paint Israel as the aggressor and perhaps force several Arab allies now in the U.S. camp over to Saddam's side, or at least to the sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than the political and military fallout from a first strike on Iraq...
...obvious case is open war, in which anyone exercising command responsibility becomes a legitimate target. As unquestioned commander of the Iraqi armed forces, Saddam Hussein would presumably qualify as much as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto did, whose plane was shot down by U.S. pilots in 1943 in a premeditated, specifically targeted and quite legal killing...
...Staff. Cheney told reporters that Dugan's strategy was "potentially a violation" of the Executive Order. But a senior official in the Pentagon argues that if General Dugan had left Saddam's family and mistress out of it -- better yet, if he had simply said the target was Iraqi command and control -- his statements "would have been...
...sponsors. That was the justification for the 1986 U.S. air raid against Libya, during which planes hit several places where Muammar Gaddafi was known to have lived. Planners insisted that they were not targeting Gaddafi -- that might have been a bit too close to assassination -- but aiming at terrorist command-and-control centers. If Gaddafi had happened to be in one -- well...