Sayings Of Stormin' Norman

In an interview with 's Dean Fischer and another magazine correspondent in Riyadh last Friday, General Norman Schwarzkopf reviewed the allied campaign, including the surprise flanking movement of 150,000 troops into western Iraq. Highlights:

Colin Powell and I understood very early on that a strategic bombing campaign in and of itself had never ever won a war and had never forced $ anybody to do anything if they wanted to sit it out. I don't think we ever believed exclusively that that would be it. So therefore we had already started talking about a ground campaign.

In one of my very...

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