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Eastertide Offensive Lessons for the Gulf War
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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.
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! Help HistoryNet by bookmarking to
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