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...some fuel-air bombs can penetrate bunkers before detonating. Another advantage is that while the force of a conventional explosion decreases rapidly as one moves away from the center of the blast, the concussion of a fuel-air device is evenly distributed. The U.S. used fuel-air explosives to destroy mines in Kuwait last week and may use them against Saddam's troops to avenge a chemical strike. Some intelligence sources suspect Iraq has fuel-air bombs as well; the technology is not difficult to replicate...
...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...
...target 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...
...uncharacteristically sharp-tongued television address last week, the King appeared to abandon his balancing act and instead focused on blasting Baghdad's challengers. The war in the gulf, said Hussein, is "against all Arabs and Muslims, not only against Iraq." Its "real purpose," he went on, is to "destroy Iraq and rearrange" the Arab nation so as to put "its aspirations and resources under direct foreign hegemony." Such a speech, playing up the themes of Muslim unity and foreign designs on the region, sounded a lot like recent pronouncements from Baghdad...
...answer was no. Tom wanted his son to go to college. So he studied criminal justice for a year, planning to become a peace officer. But he got restless and asked again. This time the answer was yes. Explains Jenkins: "I have a saying -- save the boy, destroy...