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From: zonker@ihlpf.att.com (Thomas M Harris)
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Subject: Desert Sheild Fact Book
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Date: 8 Jan 91 00:48:44 GMT
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From: zonker@ihlpf.att.com (Thomas M Harris)
At winter war in CU this weekend Frank Chadwick had a Desert Field Fact
Book that his company (GDW) had put out.  It seemed very nicely done and
a pretty complete description.  It includes a glossary, maps, tactics,
OBs, equipment descriptions and the most likely attack options against
Iraq.  It concentrates on the ground forces, rather than the air war (but
then that is probably where the greatest doubt about what will happen is).
There is also a list of naval forces active in the area.

We also ran a bathtub* version of a U.S. desert sheild attack on Kuwait
and then Iraq.  While U.S. loses were heavy, there was nothing in the Iraqi
arsenal that could actually stop a U.S. attack.  The U.S. decided to use a
direct attack on Kuwaite followed by a drive to the West of the Tigris and
Euphrates valleys to get to Baghdad.  The fighting around Habinyia against
the Iraqi guards cost the most.

				  Non Cuniculus Est,
					Tom H.

*bathtub - taking an actual situation and scaling it down to managable
size.  For example, our game was scaled down by about 1 to 500 but this
allowed us to have a table that covered all of Iraq and allowed for
Turkish, Jordanian and Syrian intervention from the appropriate borders.