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Monday, February 25, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
Gulf: Ground War
Basic plans for ground battle
For waging the offensive ground war against Iraq, military strategists are using some combination of these three basic maneuvers:
Attack from rear
Unnerves enemy because they cannot protect rear forces as well as front
Method one: Simple attack on one side or "pincer-like" on both sides
Option1: From east, U.S. Marine amphibious units, U.S. Navy
From west, U.S. and allied mobile armored forces
Method two: Wide or "turning" attack going around enemy's flank; threaten communication lines and/or strike from rear
U. S. and allied mobile armored forces come from desert into west, central Kuwait
Optioni: U.S.
Marine amphibious units
move in north of Kuwait City from
*peruan gulf*
Direct assault
Penetrate or attack enemy forces directly from front; quick, decisive, but costs attacker most casualties
Iraqi defensive southern Kuwait
Limited attacks or probes; causes enemy to use up supplies, spare parts; weak spots can be turned into large battles
Blockade or siege
Research by PAT CARR
SOURCE: "11 War Comes. How to
Defeat Saddam Hussein," by Col. Trevor
N. Dupuy, retired U.S. Army
Iraqi POWs could hamper allied plans
The Associated Press
WITH THE 10IST AIRBORNE DIVISION IN NORTHERN SAUI ARABIA - More than 5,000 Iraqi soldiers were reported captured yesterday in significant allied successes that could stretch the coalition's resources to the limit.
Several Pentagon officials said yesterday that war planners were concerned that too many Iraqi prisons could bog down the allied forces.
"Thousands of them are coming out of their holes," said one of the Pentagon officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In a pool report filed before the ground campaign began, allied commanders said a torrent of POWs could force the allies to walk the captured Iraqis south to Saudi Arabia under armed guard.
That would stretch the resources of the military police, so National Guard details are standing by to assist, said Maj. Rex Forney, MP deputy provost marshal for the 101st Airborne Division.
S. Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf,
commander of Operation Desert
Storm, said 5,500 traps were taken
in the first 10 hours of the
offense.
"And we received reports of many hundreds north of our positions with white surrender flags," the general said.
Knight-Ridder Tribune New
Forney said units planning to strike deep into enemy territory would be accompanied by one command of military police to handle POWs.
Assault fleet tries to cut Iraq's supply lines
The Associated Press
WITH THE 101ST AIRBORNE
DIVISION IN IRAQ — An assault
sheet of 300 helicopters, some piloted
by women, streaked deep into Iraq
yesterday in a lightning thrust aimed
at cutting Saddam Hussein's supply
more than 50 miles into Iraq
In what officers called the largest helicopter assault in military history, the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division airlifted more than 2,000 men, 50 humvees and howitzers, and tons of fuel and ammunition
Another 2,000 men from the tostl rolled over the border into enemy territory along what the troops called a "highway to hell."
There were no initial reports of U.S. casualties, and the 101st encountered only minimal Iraqi fire, officers said.
Women pilots flew some of the Chinook supply helicopters in the assault.
Under military regulations; women are excluded from jobs
directly related to combat, or jobs directly related to seeking out and engaging the enemy. The army says. Two women came under fire while ferrying troops into combat during a battle in 1809 invasion of Panama.
Col Tom Hill, a brigade leader, said the attack was proceeding better than anticipated. By late afternoon, the troops had carved out a 60 square mile maging area in Iraq that will serve as a giant fuel and ammunition dump for later assaults.
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