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To: steve harris who wrote (383282)	3/31/2003 11:48:37 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

We have, in Iraq, 4 large brigade-sized units which can't move half-a-mile without having 50% of their existing strength bombed away. They are dug in, in fixed positions more-or-less, around the vicinity of Badhdad. Why not in the city, with the tanks and guns under the roofs of residential homes, like the Red Army used to do, but-in true Iraqi style-with the families still in the houses-squeezed in around the tanks/guns so they die at the same time the asset is knocked out? It's estimated that Hussein-or whoever has succeeded him after his sudden death-is as afraid of the "Suicide Republican Guards" as they are of the US Armored Cavalry. So the brigades cannot move forward, backward, or laterally. And anyone trying to desert will be shot by the "Baath Loyalists". Not an auspicious start to a defense, but in addition, the Great Satan attacks at night, when you can't see anything. Enter the Armored Cav-and attached Marine infantry, which "probes" all day against the "front" of one division. In the wake of the initial bombing (reducing the "division" by 30 to 50%), the Cav finds a GAP, and gets in behind the Iraqis (The Armored Cavalary goes wherever the F--K it wants, whenever the F--K it wants. Anyone want to tell them they can't?;->). The tank brigade (or a task force thereof) of 3rd Infantry then blasts into the GAP-where it stays, establishing a second angle of fire and line-of-sight. In the original "front" of the Iraqis is the final mechanized brigade (or fraction thereof) establishing the THIRD angle of fire/LOS. Add the air-mobile (wherever they see the best TO's), and you have the makings of a real turkey shoot. And along the rest of the "division", away from the GAP on one or both sides, are the remainder of the 3rd mech and attached Marines "holding them by the nose". For 24 to 36 hours, the combined task force "rolls up" the Iraqi "division", destroying that half-or-more that's trapped in this "holding attack". The Iraqi survivors-running in all directions, are either rounded up or shot in the back as necessary. If there is an in-tact remnant of the "division" left after this operation. The process starts over, with the "attrition" bombing. This is how Baghdad becomes isolated. When the last of these formations is destroyed, Baghdad has to decide whether to throw in the towel...