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Gulf war tank battle aftermath1/6/2024 "It's the single biggest military problem the U.S. commanders leading an armored thrust across Iraq. Bostick, an assistant commander of the division.īut back at the Pentagon, military officials say the broad Euphrates is the major hurdle that would confront U.S. "We've been given no mission, so we continue to train as hard as we can," said Brig. Here at Fort Hood, located in the scrubby Texas prairie a bit south of President Bush's ranch in Crawford, officials insisted that the exercise wasn't driven by the possibility of an imminent deployment to Iraq. Over the last week, the armor-heavy 1st Cavalry, which is said by Defense Department officials to be likely to be used in any new attack in Iraq, conducted a huge river-crossing exercise involving much of the division. Army would have to cross multiple channels of the Euphrates River, the wide, slow-flowing barrier where it halted 11 years ago. And to get to the Iraqi capital, the U.S. If the United States attacks Iraq, the biggest single difference from the 1991 Persian Gulf War would be that this time, U.S. There is a reason that "Aftermath," "Antisocial," "Aliterot" and hundreds of other M1 main battle tanks from the Army's 1st Cavalry Division spent much of last week roaring across the dusty outback of this huge base.
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