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To: tekboy who wrote (49332)10/4/2002 12:18:20 PM
From: BigBull  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Ok TB here's the WSJ story on materiel build-up. Imo the "final" US troop disposition will be a lot larger than 70,000. Don't forget the US can "surge" a few divisions on short notice. Also, the article does not mention how many British troops will be involved, neither does it mention the potential dispostion of "other" allies including locals. I expect the Brits may ultimately be willing to commit a full armored division. Not trivial. If two or three US divisions are surged, then the combined US/allied forces will amount to something shy of Pollacks minimum 200 k number but certainly much greater than "Gulf War Lite."

To me, the most interesting part of the article described the "leafletting" of Iraqi troops and that three to four carrier groups are being readied for duty in the Gulf. Imo these are clear signs that hostilities will commence in earnest sometime this winter.

U.S. places war materiel
in Gulf

Pentagon begins Iraqi psychological drive

By Greg Jaffe and Carla Anne Robbins
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

msnbc.com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4 — The Pentagon quietly has amassed much of the equipment it would need in the Persian Gulf region to launch a military campaign against Iraq and is now kicking off a large-scale psychological campaign aimed at causing fissures between Saddam Hussein and his troops....
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