European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 04, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday february 4,1991 the stars and stripes. A a a Page 7khafji Battle helps Saddam s image Dhahran saudi Arabia apr iraqis probing attacks into saudi Arabia showed Saddam Hussein to be a master of Basic principles of warfare taking Offen Siye action achieving Surprise and maintaining troop morale defense analysts say. Although the iraqi Leader probably  least one full battalion in holding the saudi arabian town of Khanji for 36 hours the action scored a psychological Victory before Allied air and artillery forced the soldiers out. A i think it s been a Jolt to the coalition said Edward Foster a researcher at the London based Royal United services Institute for defense studies. A a it a been a real Jolt to Public opinion in America and this country Britain a a he said. A i think the Assumption was we were setting the timetable. Its bound to open questions of  admittedly the Border town was a soft target. Khan jigs 20,000 inhabitants had been evacuated because it is within Range of iraqi artillery. Two seven Man . Marine reconnaissance patrols were in Khanji when the iraqi mechanized infantry came rolling in tuesday night. A. A a a a a. A a a. A Cheney worried iraqis will rearm after War ends by the Baltimore Sun Washington a Secretary of defense Dick Chc Ney says he is a concerned about the prospects of major rearmament of Iraq Elfter the persian Gulf War. He said he May Spek International accords to prevent that country from rebounding As a military threat. He restated the administrations preparedness to consider a cease fire Only if president Saddam Hussein withdrew his occupation forces from Kuwait a we have no designs on Baghdad no desire to damage unnecessarily the iraqi nation a a he said saturday on Cable news networks Evans and Novak show. But Saddam a has to know there is no Sanctuary in Iraq for his forces a he said. V Cheney said he would be Happy if the half million iraqi troops estimated to be entrenched in Kuwait a began to walk Back to Baghdad and left their tanks and their artillery and their armoured personnel carriers right where they re  it he characterized the air and missile strikes on Baghdad and other parts of Iraq As part of a two pronged Allied strategy intended Quot to restore stability and Security to the region.�?�. A the first prong Cheney said involved targeting iraqi ground forces a especially the elite Republican guard a to Force Iraq out of Kuwait. The second he said was to eliminate Saddam a offensive military capabilities a his weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. He said it was unlikely the iraqi army would be entirely Defeated As Many of the More than 60 divisions were deployed outside the theater of War in the Northern and Eastern parts of Iraq. It a i have to be concerned about the prospects of major rearmament of Iraq after this is Over with a Cheney said. A Quot. A Quot a. A you Don t let a couple of battalions plus of iraqi troops wander Over the Border and not do something about it. It was very politically embarrassing. A a Francis Tus armed forces journal International . Generals briefing the Media insisted the allies were not surprised. But analysts said if that were the Case the iraqis should have been stopped at the Border. A you done to let a couple of battalions plus of iraqi troops wander Over the Border arid not do something about it a said Francis Tusa european editor of armed forces journal International. A it was very politically embarrassing a. With nearly 4,000 iraqi troops involved Foster said a a you a have thought someone would have seen them concentrating for an attack 12 hours in  the allies initially played Down the incursion but Are now touting it As a major Victory. . To Rinnander Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf on wednesday called it a militarily  the time saudi and atari troops  Khanji on thursday backed by . Marine artillery and helicopters Allied commanders were calling it a decisive Victory in the War. President Bush and the . Generals in saudi Arabia insist the iraqi attacks will have no effect on the plan Ning or timing of the Allied ground offensive expected sometime in the next few weeks. \ nonetheless in a War where television has a dominant role and perceptions Are All important the unexpected iraqi forays had an Impact. For one thing the attacks destroyed the illusion that 30,000 Allied air sorties had stunned the  immobility. They also showed that rank and file iraqi soldiers appeared to be highly motivated and fight Tena. Piously. A a a a a a a a a a a a a  a a a. A a a a a a. A a a a a a a. A a a a a a a a a. A. Medio Pool keeping in shape sgt. Bruce Baldwin of London Ohio strains As he lifts saudi arabian desert. Baldwin in a member of the 1st weights during a respite from his military duties in the army div deployed to the persian Gulf area. In every Warby the Washington Post Washington a the military term is a Friendly fire a one of the most durable euphemisms of combat. It Means troops getting shelled or bombed by their own Side experts say it happens in every War. In world War ii the United states lost two submarines to. Friendly fire a one mistakenly bombed in the Caribbean the of Iii depth charged by a destroyer in the Pacific. They went Down with All hands. In Korea a . Marine platoon was incinerated by a napalm bomb dropped on its position by an american plane. In his Book a the forgotten War a military historian Clay Blair quoted one of the survivors pfc. James Ransomejr a i done to know How in the world the flames missed me. Men All around me were burned. They Lay rolling in the Snow. Men i knew marched and fought with begged me to shoot them. I couldn�?Tt.,. A in Vietnam a Young Soldier from Iowa sgt. Michael Mullen was killed by a stray . A Tillery Shell in an incident made famous after the War by , Bryan s Book a Friendly  Mullen a commander was Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf then a lieutenant colonel. Schwarzkopf now commanding . Forces in operation Oer storm recalled that incident in an earlier press conference. He said he and his colleagues  be surprised if some . Marines were killed by Friendly fire As now appears Likely p a a in be been bombed by our own air Force a Schwarzkopf told reporters. A i was bombed by b-52s one time in  there was no Point in getting angry about it Schwarzkopf said. A a it a something that happens in every  a a we re in combat right now a Marine maj. Gen Robert Johnston said at saturdays briefing. In combat especially at night a there will be other occurrences of some of Pur troops potentially being a victim of Friendly  a a it a happened in every War that in be Ever heard of a retired Navy capt. Edward l. Beach author of a run silent run deep a said saturday. T in recalled the 1941 sinking of the sub Marine Dorado commanded Tay a close Friend that was bombed while sailing through the Caribbean by a . Plane that mistook signal lights for muzzle flashes. The submarine sea Wolf was sunk in late 1944 by a . Destroyer that ignored or misread identifying signals the submarine was sending by sonar. In a paper prepared for a 1982 military history symposium at Carlisle Barracks pa., army it. Col. Charles r. Shrader reported that there were 90 a Friendly fire incidents in the Vietnam War and 173 in we old War ii. The number of . Troops killed or wounded in those Irtel dents is not known because the armed forces do not report such casualties Sepu rarely from others incurred in combat. The fighting that left 11 . Marines dead near the saudi kuwaiti Border last week at close quarters at night and in partnership w Ith troops Froit other armies that Are physically and linguistically indistinguishable from the enemy a was the Type of fighting that can be expected to result m some Friendly fire casualties retired army chief of staff Gen. John h. Wickhamjr. Said saturday. _. A there Are a variety of reasons a he said including bad weather and inaccurate target designation. He said . Troops Are trained in  identification a but similarity of equipment can create confusion