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To: j_b who wrote (6706)	10/2/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: dougjn	Respond to of 67261

Much of Saddam's armed forces was front line Soviet stuff. Our stuff is now vastly better than what the Soviet's have, in virtually every single case. They don't begin to have the bad weather capability we have, for example. Or night capability. Or electronic jamming capability. (Some, but way less.) It's true that Kosovo wouldn't be as easy a terrain for our tanks as the Saudi/Kuwaiti/Iraqi border area. But our air power would be little deterred. Really, the main issue there is the air defense capability. Iraq's was almost first rate. Very much a Soviet system, with some of their better stuff. Way, way more than anything Serbia has. We almost totally disabled it in the first few hours of fighting. Of course we wouldn't send such an air armada against Serbia. Don't need to either. Doug