Let's see general, we fought "The Mother of All Battles" and it took us 100 hours.
I'd just like to see us fight a war with the gloves off like WWII - carpet bombing, and nukes if necessary! Then we'd see who finishes it.
"Let's see general, we fought "The Mother of All Battles" and it took us 100 hours. "
It couldn't last any longer: Schwartzkopf's tanks were out of gas by that time.
Forget the conventional spin on the Gulf War that a cringing Colin Powell, watching live tape of the Highway of Death, put an end to the war. Or even to the idea that the "Arabs would not let us go to Baghdad". The truth is that even with 5 months in which the Iraqi's didn't lift a finger against us, we still could only move enough gasloline forward for 100 hours of operations, mostly because the Iraqis crumbled instead of fighting, and that allowed us to move faster than anticipated.
In effect, they screwed up our schedule and that included the logistics end of it too: we had the supplies, but they weren't scheduled to be there yet and there was no provision to move them forward at an acclerated rate.
To quote Rossikovski: Amateurs discuss tactics; Professionals discuss logistics.