Word: commandeering
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...waged war against another country (Nicaragua), and totes an equally menacing chemical weapon (nuclear warheads). The point is that if you are on the receiving end of any one of these demonic policies, it makes very little difference whether the imperial "Satan" or the "Butcher of Baghdad" is at "command and control...
...style frontal assault that Saddam Hussein's generals seem to be bracing to fight. "Don't give me a meat grinder," General Norman Schwarzkopf has repeatedly told his operations planners. Instead, AirLand doctrine calls for air attacks on the enemy's rear areas to cut off supply lines, destroy command-and-control centers, and strike at reinforcing units in order to isolate the battlefront...
These fears are natural and healthy. Battle plans do go awry, and tens of thousands of lives are at stake. There are parts of the AirLand doctrine -- the full-fledged combined-arms ground offensive in particular -- that have never been tested on a battlefield. But the allied command has been running an AirLand battle by the book for more than four weeks now, demonstrating that it can coordinate large, mobile forces with the requisite precision and skill. If the next phase of the battle goes as smoothly, a strategy designed for the plains of Central Europe will have been validated...
...badly aimed bombs. That has probably occurred in Baghdad as well, but not this time. The dispute here is whether the bunker was an ordinary civilian bomb shelter, as the Iraqis insist, or a former shelter recently converted to military use, as the U.S. command maintains...
...because of the effectiveness of earlier U.S. attacks on Baghdad. In the opening days of the war, the allies' strategic objective was to "decapitate" the Iraqi armed forces, to cut Saddam Hussein and his top officers off from the army in the south. Bombing raids were mounted to destroy command headquarters and military communications centers in the heart of the capital. As these were knocked out, the task of coordinating the armed forces was decentralized to secondary posts in the suburbs -- like the one hit last week...