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Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf WarVietnam | one comment | Print This Post | Email This Post
We Marines thought that it would be ideal to shift west for our attack. If we tried to attack all across the Kuwait border, we would be spread too thin. Now, we were free to shift for a straight shot to Kuwait International Airport without having to go through oil fields or built-up areas. We could slice through the Iraqis rapidly. Subscribe Today
More important, that freed the U.S. Army to shift even farther west and do what General Schwarzkopf later called the Hail Mary, or ‘end around’ flanking of Iraqi forces. The Vietnam experience had paid handsome dividends. For more great articles be sure to subscribe to Vietnam Magazine today! Pages: 1 2 3 4Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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One Comment to “Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf War”
This information I have just read has certainly hit a nerve for me. I was on Firebase Sarge, 1971. When I was there with the TDY group from the 4077th RRFS in Phu Bai. I lived in the same bunker that I just read about. When i was there , it was 4 artillary guys and 3 from ASA and an Australian advisor to the Sout Vietnamese unit that was stationed there with us. Small tarmack on the top and 2 big guns that would some time work out on the side of the mountain. I want to thank those two fellas from the 407th for the supreme sacrafice they made along with all the other brave men that day. I was a lucky guy to be gone from that hell hole, although when i talk to my children i always say that i would do it all over again…. God Bless our Servicemen and Women and their families…………….
By Brian A Leon on Dec 20, 2008 at 7:23 pm