[dvan]

This is great! We can see that they must have really provided some good strategy to help Iraq!! LOL!!!!!! I think they were using the tactics the Russians used against Napoleon. Fall Back! Fall Back! Fall Backs! OOPs too far back. They got that part right- but the rest of the plan?

[arthurus]

Given the performance of the Russian army in Chechnya and Afghanistan, and the performance of the Soviet-plan Iraqi army in 1991 I think that had that great battle for Europe at the Fulda Gap actually occurred, the Russians would not have fared well.

[katana]

If Iraq covered eleven time zones, that strategy could work. In a place that's 300 miles of mostly sandy billiard table with mountains and enemies you've been fighting for a thousand years at the back, not your best option.