Architects of Gulf War (I) reflect on its aftermath

[unhappycamper]

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (DoD? Gannett?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.
To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Tell me this war crap isn't expensive.




Architects of Gulf War reflect on its aftermath
By David Jackson - USA Today
Posted : Thursday Jan 20, 2011 21:39:41 EST

James Baker, Secretary of State in the first Bush administration, called Operation Desert Storm “a textbook case of the way to conduct a war,” one that worked on four levels: diplomatically, politically, militarily and economically. Diplomatically, the United States had the support of the United Nations and assembled a 34-nation coalition that included the Soviet Union and Arab countries. Politically, Bush won an authorization of force from a Democratic House and Senate. Militarily, the United States deployed more than 500,000 troops. Economically, Baker said, the United States paid $10 billion of the $70 billion war tab, and coalition partners picked up the rest.