DESERT STORM GENERAL NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF once said its record was 33 for 33. President Bush was nearly as upbeat, claiming it was 41 out of 42. Last week a group of independent analysts said nobody can determine how many of the 47 threatening Iraqi Scud missiles were intercepted and destroyed by U.S. Patriot missiles.
Steven Hildreth, a Congressional Research Service defense specialist, told the House Government Operations Committee that the Army's 1991 data would support a claim of only "one warhead kill." Under fire, Major General Jay Garner confirmed that the Army, in a revised study, was dropping its kill claims...