If History proves this statement accurate with documentation, it would certainly explain why GWB has seemed to be so uneasy about what he says....
From Stuart Koehl in response to the post above on Max Hastings' Armageddon:
"[N]ote that the U.S. Army retained its fixation with "synchronization" well into the 1990s. During Desert Storm, we were prevented from pocketing Saddam's Republican Guard corps because both Tommy Franks and Norman Schwarzkopf (two of the more overrated commanders of our time) eschewed pursuit of the defeated Iraqis to "tidy up" the battlefield and get all of our forces on line before advancing further.
By that time, CNN video of the Highway of Death had already influenced public opinion (and more importantly, Colin Power—the most overrated commander of our time) to call a premature halt to ground operations. If, instead, Franks had pushed on to the Tigris and Euphrates crossings, relying on U.S. air superiority (and, of course, materiel and tactical superiority on the ground) to protect his flanks, then the Republican Guards would have been cut off from Iraq and would have had to surrender at discretion, even if we called a cease fire at the same time.
Also, The Amber Room of Peter the Great was an interesting sidebar to his review.....
The Amber Room represented a joint effort of German and Russian craftsmen. After several other 18th-century renovations, it covered more than 55 square meters and contained over six tonnes of amber. It took over ten years to construct
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