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1st Marine Divison Follows US Army 3rd Infantry Up Euphrates [100 mi. from Baghdad]
STRATFOR.com 'Iraq War Room' ^
| March 23, 2003
| situation report staff
Posted on 03/23/2003 1:56:51 PM PST by ewing
This [move] sugests CENTCOM has abandoned an advance up the Tigris River...
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 1stmeu; 3rdinfantry; euphrates; iraq; roadtobaghdad; strategy; troopmovement; usa; warlist
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Looks like we have got a convoy up there
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:56:51 PM PST
by
ewing
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: ewing
Al Kut is about 100 miles from Bahgdad.
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:58:09 PM PST
by
demlosers
To: Pushi
Please Quit spamming threads.
To: Pushi
DON'T WATCH THE OSCARS.Never crossed my mind...
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:58:48 PM PST
by
demlosers
To: demlosers
Wasnt the 3rd Infantry taking a rest after 40 hours straight on the road?
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posted on
03/23/2003 1:59:46 PM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
3rd Infantry has already cleared the way. Why fight new people when the point is to get to Baghdad?
To: Admin Moderator
Bump!
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:00:37 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: ewing
Yeah, I read somewhere they were taking rests. They'll need it.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:01:00 PM PST
by
demlosers
To: demlosers
Or they could be resting to join with 1st Marines since they do have the option of trading off drivers while one sleeps
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:01:41 PM PST
by
ewing
To: Pushi
Please stop putting this on every thread. We agree and get the point.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:01:52 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Bush/Rice 2004- pray & fast for our troops this lent-Peace through strength)
To: Pushi
DON'T WATCH THE OSCARS.You couldn't pay me enough to watch that garbage.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:02:33 PM PST
by
WarSlut
To: vbmoneyspender
Good point, Im amazed those guys have enough room to sleep comfortably in vehicle but it appears to be working!
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:03:55 PM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
The Iraqi units left in Basra and other cities are equivalent to those Japanese stuck on islands bypassed by the American thrust toward Japan.
This is a lightning war, and we are not stopping to pacify every single village in Iraq.
To: denydenydeny
Yep, constant motion. (except for the last 20 miles or so in the Baghdad suburbs)
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:05:47 PM PST
by
ewing
To: ewing
I did some quick calculations: they have traveled about 220 - 250 miles in 3 days without little sleep.
To: ewing
I don't believe we have enough ground forces to sustain a two pronged advance. Both prongs would be unable to support the other or exploit a success. Ralph Peters has repeatedly written that the one area he feels Rumsfeld is plainly wrong is in his failure to recognize the need for ground troops well armed and equipped.We're now invading a country with a degraded, though dangerous, military with four divisions. Two of them essentially light infantry. I do not think you can advance at high speed and fully protect your line of supply in a nation as large as Iraq with four divisions. When we went in in '91 we attacked with three corps, each with three or four divisions.
We'd best get 4ID there ASAP and if any of the Stryker Brigades are deployable we should consider doing so. We need boots on the ground.
To: xkaydet65
Reuters said US troops were massing in the North.
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:09:28 PM PST
by
ewing
To: demlosers
The networks were saying 260 miles in 40 hours (with tanks)..incredible
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posted on
03/23/2003 2:11:20 PM PST
by
ewing
To: xkaydet65
The 82nd Airborne is not yet in the game!! ThEY ARE HELD IN RESERVE!!
I almost pity the Iraqis they encounter when they go in!!
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