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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I think your really oversimplifying things to be quite honest.
Are you saying that the use of their technological superiority wasn't part of their plan and that this was just a blind zerg rush by the Americans?
A good general knows what he has and takes the best advantage of it.
Storming Norman knew that he had the faster and better armor, he knew he had the better navigation equipment.
To an extent the American's were fighting a Iraqi army that was battle hardened after an 8 year war against Iran. An Army which at the time had the second best main battle tank in their arsenal.
On top of that the Republican Guards were well supplied and had high moral and they were pounded.
Maybe I don't get what your saying, but Schwarzkopf before he was the supreme commander of the coalition (which included command of the air assets and naval assets in the region) was Commander in Chief of the U.S. Central Command and had built a strategy around Iraq invading into Saudi Arabia prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, a large part of that strategy formed what would later become Desert Shield, the build up of a rapid reaction force In the middle east to counter Iraq's army. That strategy also encompassed the use of Air Power to smash strategic and high value tactical targets prior to the ground forces going in.
Chuck Horner was the air commander, but he implemented Norman's overall theatre strategy.
Schwarzkopf knew what he was facing, and he built a battle plan around that and his tactical advantages. He didn't line up his units on the border pull out his sword and yell charge.
The American's overwhelmed and destroyed what at the time was one of the largest armies in the world, an army with one of the largest armor formations seen with the exception of the Soviets and he not only smashed them, but he smashed them in about 4 days with very few casualties on his side.
He will go down as one of the great American Generals, and justifiably so.
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I guess what some having been saying is with such overwhelming equipment and resources he comes across more like a Scotty Bowman and not a George Washington.