Naw, maybe it's the tons and tons of ordnance and firey hell to be visted upon him that he should really be afraid of.
What's Iraq plan to do with the UAVs?
JDAM damn Saddam Dam. (JDAM is GPS guided bomb, cheap 18K for the guidance kit and 2K for the bomb, 2000 lb variety that is, hardened penatrator version slightly higher.)
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if this is true, WND ain't to bright.
SR
This is true...I read this a few weeks ago. A yearly exercise - but timely.
Perhaps both of them. It must be hard to run a country with a hook in your jaw.
An extra 2,000 U.S. troops have begun arriving in Kuwait to take part in desert war games and act as a deterrent to Iraq, officials said yesterday.
"Their arrival is continuing over the next few days," a U.S. source said. The United States, which already has around 5,000 troops in the conservative Gulf Arab state, is preparing for a training exercise codenamed "Desert Spring".
The reinforcements are expected to draw military hardware from stores at the Americans' Camp Doha on the outskirts of the capital, Kuwait City, and head to the desert area close to the frontier with Iraq for the manoeuvres.
Officials said the U.S. show of force was a message to Iraq, demonstrating Washington's readiness to defend Kuwait despite Washington's preoccupation with its military offensive against the Taliban and the Al Qaida network in Afghanistan.
The United States has kept ground troops, warplanes and heavy weapons in Kuwait since the 1991 Gulf War, when it led an international military coalition to drive out Iraqi forces which had occupied Kuwait for seven months.
One of those scenarios is obviously concerning Iraq and EVERY SINGLe option and realisitic military plan that can be executed and under what circumstances, including analysis by the state department, DOD, CIA- they all pitch in on the thinking and the possible results and liklihood of success.
Most Americans are unaware of the incredible amount of planning and thought that goes into such serious possible moves. There is literally a scenario in writing for just about everything you can imagine might occur. Since 9/11 this government has worked overtime to update scenarios and provide the President and his team with a helluva lot of info so he can have plenty of options at his disposal.
The era of the Johnson Administration and into the Nixon Administration of silly military planning and boondoggles is so far behind the management of military action today, it's like night and day. This is an incredibly scientific risk assessment pursuit. These people are extraordinarily capable, methodical, and approach this as a science.
So, if there is a build-up in Kuwait, you can bet your tail that it has been well thought out, there is an exact goal and plan already in place that has been thought-out in incredible detail, including diversionary plans.
Look, something is obviously going on there, the President has chosen some option, now the plan is being implemented- WHY? Because assests are being moved- that's the key. Now, you wait for the reaction, if any, and go to the next step of the plan, altering, amending, scientifically assessing what you then need to change or pursue. We are in incredibly good hands with this President and the most capable and intelligent National Security Council ever assembled. Nobody's gonna do anything stupid. If assests are moved, its silly to speculate about what is going to happen next, its been planned, assessed for risk, thought out thoroughly, and if movement is occuring, something is planned- it may be nothing more than diversionary.
In short, some military movements are impossible to do covertly. Others are not, Advantage is sometimes gained with covert, and advantage is sometimes gained with overt.
At this juncture, I wouldn't want to see people talking about U.S.assests being moved from bases around the world unless the Pentagon announces it. However, with Diversion, you don't announce it really, you "kinda" let the press find out about it.
