It could come sooner, later or not at all. Predicting how the script will play out is almost impossible: war is an activity that almost always seems to be governed by Murphy's Law (if anything can go wrong, it will). Nonetheless, this is how a war with Iraq might start -- and how some Pentagon planners think the U.S. might win quickly and with minimum casualties:
Mid-November comes, and Iraqi troops still occupy Kuwait. The worldwide embargo shows no signs of squeezing Iraq hard enough to force a withdrawal; on the contrary, maintaining the embargo against defections gets more difficult every...
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