Article

2003-04-01 Iraq

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by JAB 2003-04-01 06:18 pm|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "light on the ground"? We're damn heavy in the air. The Americans aways want overwhelming firepower and the air provides a lot of that.

Posted by Don 2003-04-01 20:42:00|| 2003-04-01 20:42:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Is this the big battle or a prelude? Me thinks that when they get a taste of combined arms fires to grid; they be quitting pretty quick. MLRS has some tangy punch to it.

Also I am thinking if saddam is alive at all he's in Tikrit, which has been very silent, DOD saying nothing about it. Probably snuck up there with his favorite sons hoping to run the war from there and if neessary skip town from there.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-01 20:56:41|| 2003-04-01 20:56:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Look at the map. The Marines are pulling ot the east of their area at Al Kut. The 3rd ID is pulling ot the west of Karbala (gap between the city and the resevior).

Where is the 101st?

Bomb the RGs to weaken them, pull them in opposite directions, and then hey-diddle-diddle, straight up the middle for the 101st which would allow the 101 to exploit and kill off artillery units (primary souce of chem weapons in the Iraqi army) - and strategically, that would cut off the retreat routes for the RGs - in effect pocketing them in 2 sections isolated from each other and Baghdad.

That would be the biggest full encirclement since WW2, possibly Kursk or the the trapping of OB-West in the Ruhr.

(Discounting the last GW, since there was considerable flight fromthe pocket prior to it closing).

Posted by OldSpook 2003-04-01 22:04:08|| 2003-04-01 22:04:08|| Front Page Top

#4 shhh!

Posted by becky 2003-04-01 22:21:35|| 2003-04-01 22:21:35|| Front Page Top

09:39 raptor
07:13 Bulldog
00:52 Brew
23:37 RW
23:29 mojo
23:23 mojo
23:17 True German Ally
23:14 mojo
23:10 mojo
22:54 Former Russian Major
22:52 tu3031
22:46 H.D. Miller
22:32 tu3031
22:21 becky
22:21 Anonymous
22:20 anon1
22:17 Former Russian Major
22:11 Anonymous
22:10 markiv
22:10 Frank G
22:10 Former Russian Major
22:04 OldSpook
21:53 OldSpook
21:52 True German Ally